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President Saïed and Macron Discuss Bilateral Relations and Global Issues on Tunisia’s Independence Anniversary

Tunis: President of the Republic Kais Saïed Friday received a phone call from French president Emmanuel Macron who congratulated him on Tunisia's 70th independence anniversary. The Head of State and the French president discussed several issues, mainly relations with the European Union. Saïed underlined the need to revise the association agreement for "more balance, justice and fairness," a Presidency press release cited him as saying. According to Agence Tunis Afrique Presse, the issue of the recovery of stolen funds was also raised. Tunisia, the President said, is resolute in having its misappropriated assets restituted as this is an "imprescriptible" right of the Tunisian people. He criticised, in this vein, the complexity of judicial proceedings which so far failed to deliver any results. Stepped-up efforts need to be made to ensure the voluntary return of undocumented migrants, the Head of State said in another connection. Tunisia gave a lot and is "victim" of an unjust world economic order and crimina l networks of human trafficking in sub-Saharan Africa and the northern shore of the Mediterranean. International organisations and countries of the North have to fully play their role as Tunisia, the President further said, objects to serving as a transit or destination country for undocumented migrants. Saïed and Macron emphasised the necessity of working in concert to "establish a new international legitimacy" as the one which followed the Second World War has been eroded over the years. "New visions and ideas" need to be produced to serve as solid foundations for the emergence of fresh concepts that make a clean sweep of obsolete notions, the Head of State highlighted. The President of the Republic and his French counterpart also discussed the hard genesis of a new "humanist" order - the one and only way to translate the aspirations of Humanity to justice and freedom into reality. "When there is no justice, injustice and aggression take foothold; when individual and collective freedoms shrink, despoti sm and obscurantism prevail," the President further said. "It is time to defend a new philosophy of enlightenment that wipes away injustice and puts an end to suffering and tragedies," the Head of State added. The whole humanity, mainly the Palestinian people, has endured suffering under "a decaying international legality."