Tunisia

Ambassador: No Serbians among victims in Tunisia

TUNISIA -- There are no Serbians among the tourists murdered and taken hostage in the Wednesday attack on the Bardo Museum in the capital of Tunisia.

This is what Serbian Ambassador in Tunisia Nikola Lukic told Tanjug.

At least 21 people were killed when militants attacked Tunisia's Bardo museum in the capital Tunis, Prime Minister Habib Essid said on March 18.

The death toll includes 17 foreign tourists from Poland, Italy, Germany and Spain, as well as two gunmen, a Tunisian security officer and a Tunisian cleaning woman.

Essid said two or three of the attackers remained at large.

TUNIS - There are no Serbs among the tourists murdered and taken hostage in the Wednesday attack on the Bardo Museum in the capital of Tunisia, Serbian Ambassador in Tunisia Nikola Lukic told Tanjug.

At least eight people have been killed in a shooting at a Tunisian museum where a hostage situation is believed to be underway.

According to reports of Radio Mosaique, three men dressed in military-style clothing have seized hostages at Bardo Museum in the capital, Tunis, which is adjacent to the national parliament building.

At least eight people were killed after a shooting took place in the Bardo National Museum in central Tunis, which is adjacent to the building of the Tunisian Parliament.

Among the victims are at least seven foreign tourists and one Tunisian.

According to unconfirmed reports, several tourists from European countries were taken hostages at the museum, the BBC reports.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic discussed with Tunisian Ambassador Majid Hamlaoui improvements in bilateral relations on Monday.

Nikolic underscored that the two peoples have traditionally good relations, which are fostered and deepened even further, the president's press service said in a release.

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic received a Tunisian parliamentary delegation currently visiting Serbia, discussing ways to improve inter-parliamentary cooperation and overall relations between Serbia and Tunisia, especially in the sphere of economy, on Monday.

A former Tunisian interior minister has been nominated as prime minister to form a new government after an agreement among political parties in the newly elected parliament, congress speaker Mohamed Nacer said on Jan. 5.
   

Tunisia's new leader Beji Caid Essebsi said the country has turned the page on dictatorship after a presidential vote that European observers hailed on Tuesday as "credible and transparent".
      
Essebsi, an 88-year-old veteran of previous Tunisian regimes, was on Monday declared the winner of a vote seen as a landmark for the birthplace of the Arab Spring.
      

Anti-Islamist politician Beji Caid Essebsi won Tunisia's presidential election with 55.68 percent of the vote, beating incumbent Moncef Marzouki, the electoral commission said on Dec. 12.
      
Essebsi, an 88-year-old veteran of previous governments, becomes the first president freely elected by Tunisians since independence from France in 1956.