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Tunisian Prime Minister Says His Country Supports Palestinian Arabs

March 6, 1970
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Prime Minister Bahi Labgham, of Tunisia declared here today that his country was “in complete solidarity with the Palestinians and will not change its line from that of any other Arab state.” In an interview with Le Monde, he said the Tunisian Government will do whatever it can “in order to further the fight of Palestinian nationalists and support their stand to recover their occupied homeland.” He stressed Tunisia’s close ties with the West but insisted that this would not alter its stand in the Mideast conflict.

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