 Good afternoon, everybody. This is the first official meeting of the U.S. President of the United States since December 1, 2014. Of course, we all followed the steps of Tunisia's democratic movement since 2011. After the revolution on the religious level, after the parliamentary and presidential elections last year, Tunisia has been promoted to build a constitutional government through a different government that has been formed. We wish Tunisia all success and follow the steps of all challenges. We wish Tunisia all success and follow the steps of all challenges and follow the steps of all challenges. First of all, I would like to say that we are honoured to work with all the partners we have worked with in the past month. We are grateful to the President of the United States for his support. He is a new president, and in his first week, he is the President of his country. I would also like to thank the President of Tunisia, Kays De Ragey and the President of this Unis. We are thankful for the support of Tunisia and its partners that were with us and the travel team in Jalaud. I also thank the President of this country for his support and for his understanding and initiated the efforts. We came to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for his participation and his work with the United Nations. We have here our friend and colleague, the Ambassador Bill Taylor. He is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who will be the director of today's session. He is the former head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was also a supporter of Tunisia for a long time after the coup or the revolution from 2010 to 2014. I am honored and honored to present to you the president of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who in two words is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and his work with the United Nations. My lady, you were the main person in Tunisia for a long time, since 2011, a source of confidence and determination. The former president became the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in December 2014, and he is the main person in the way of all the challenges. On the right side of the wall, he promised to be the head of all Tunisians, men and women, without exception. He also promised to build trust between all the social groups and all the parties. He is honored to be with us today. He is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We know that you will meet President Obama tomorrow, but today, he promised to talk to us about your view and your future in your country, which faces challenges. Let's welcome him with the speech of the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It's like the word of the country. What can you say? Let's see what you can say. Go upstairs. First of all, I would like to thank the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and also the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taylor, for the generous invitation, and for all of you who supported it. Because I know the importance of these institutions for the sake of peace. And our whole life is dedicated to defending peace. Can you translate this? Go ahead. I would like to remind you that this is the second official visit to the United States, the United States, with the invitation from the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Barack Obama. The second visit is in the 11th of October. It's been four years. I and him have been working in order to promote democracy in Turkey. Every day, after four years, and after we finished our elections, in the year 2011, we were given the authority to vote for the people who voted for us. We were honored by the elections. It is known that the people who voted for us were not from the other party or the other party. Most of them were from the Islamic party. These are the people who voted for us. There is a difference between Islam and Islam. Islam is a political movement that uses religion, and sometimes it uses violence. Muslims are mostly Muslims. Islam in Tunisia is an open religion. It lives with all religions. Islam is a religious movement that uses religion. We have religion, and we have religion, but it is the Lord alone who does not attack. The person who attacks is the one who imposes religion on the party. In any case, in Tunisia, the party that used to be called the Islamic party, or the political party, but it has a religious background, and Tunisia is mostly Muslim. But also, Tunisia is not Muslim, and they also have an open religion. In Tunisia, the only country in the world that has a problem between Muslims and Jews. In Tunisia, we have the oldest religious movement in Tunisia. The Jewish religion. It has been in Tunisia for 2,500 years. In fact, we are older than the Jews in the United States. And we live in a total collapse. In this month, the Jews in Tunisia, who are still, they have made a big mistake in what is called the West, a religious mistake. And the Jews came from all over the world. And this mistake is due to the president of the Republic of Tunisia, and also to the members of the government of Tunisia. And it is against the best standards. But I assure you that in Tunisia, religions do not live. And they do not live against the best standards, against the differences that are present in other countries. In the last 4 years, in Tunisia, we have been in a democratic movement. We are the only Arab and Muslim country that has a democratic regime. So this is a little bit. In fact, we are in Tunisia. We have a president of the Republic. We have a general election, secret election, and a meeting. And the president of the Republic, he is the one to make you laugh. He is the president of the people of Tunisia, he is complete and complete, and most of them are Arab. Why should we say most of them are Arab? Because in these elections, they are elected, 27 of them are elected in Tunisia. And in nature, two days ago, the president who was elected, and the president who was the president of the Republic for 3 years, and who is the president of the Republic, is in charge of the election. And we have a national assembly, a selection, and the speciality is that the people of Tunisia have different feelings. And so, even a political feeling and a part of it from the elections. But not all of them are elected in the elections, in nature. As the president of the Republic, not all of them are elected. We have at least five important parties who had the results, and who are now in the people's parliament. Because of them, the party that has an Islamic republic. And indeed, the leaders of these parties live with each other, and we have created a government, and this government, unlike what we have done since the 60s, is a different government. What do you mean? We have created from nearly five parties, four of them, and with them, a small party. And until now, this government has been doing without any challenges. That is, a big one, and the parliament has given it a high percentage of votes. That is, we, the parliament, in two hundred and seventeen days, the government has achieved 166 votes. And so, this government has a lot of votes, and the message is a revolution. And it is going to continue, and God willing, it will be in every state. It will last for five years. I hope it will last for five years, but the problem with the president whether he will stay or not, is in his work. I think that the government is like that on the street. And that the majority of the parties that have four parties, Of course, we are Muslims, but we are not. There is no other party. We are Tunisians, because I am his president. Because the constitution, I don't hear why. Here is the constitution. I mean, for most women to hear it, I respect women. But it doesn't mean that all we did in Tunisia It was easy. There were great difficulties, and we still faced other difficulties. First of all, the democratic market was like a political weapon, but it didn't work out as a political weapon if it didn't work out as a economic weapon. And the economic part didn't work out as a political weapon. He said, why is there only one person who has this? Because in the rest of the Arab countries and the Islamic countries, there is only one person who has the freedom of democracy. And we in the advanced nations, and in their advanced nations, the United States of America, after it has become advanced, means that they love to promote democracy in the world. And especially in the third world world, we don't say that it's advanced, but there is a way to do it. But we will get out of this. We will get out of this a little bit. And why is this? Because Tunisia has moved from the 1950s to the 1960s. And on the head of Tunisia at that time, a man named Habib Bourguiba came. He raised Tunisia in this direction. First of all, he started to reform the society. Because the Tunisian society was a society that was behind all the societies. And we were living in it. Instead of making reforms, the first reform was to reform the Tunisian women. And now, the Tunisian woman has been liberated from independence until today. And now, the Tunisian woman is under the Tunisian society the place that has disappeared. I'm not saying that it has disappeared, it has disappeared, the place of the man. And God willing, after a long time, I don't know how the man is. And secondly, he is a teacher. He understands that the progress requires knowledge and technology. And this is general teaching. And we used to say that today, Tunisia was not a school in the age of moving to school, and it was not a place in school, and it was not a free place. And today, the Tunisian people are not the Tunisian people who have been liberated from independence. And now, it is time for independence. And I know that if you don't know it, I used to be a teacher. I'm not young at all. And all these times, I stopped them. And I said to you, let's know what to say. And it's time for the independence of Tunisia. Our main problem that we had in it was a great time. It was the unification of the nation. Because we saw the people of the nation and the majority of them, and you know all the people who lived there, and you see people, you know. We used to make pills, and then we learned about the great, and the great, and the young, and they started, Alif, Baa, Taa, Thaa. People used to say that we didn't get a result. Burgeib said that we didn't get a result. And in reality, we got a result. Today, this year, our problem is not the nation. It's not the people of the nation. It's our problem. That is, the work comes to the people who have the high achievements for a big diploma. They don't have a job. Why? Because of the education, the economic development, and the financial development. This is the main problem. Because this is a problem. And we are 60 years old. The people of Torsi, the people of Torsi who lived there, meaning in 1956, and the people of the other people who we didn't teach, especially women, didn't teach. We didn't teach, we didn't teach, and we even had a scholarship, or scholarships, or religious scholarships. We lived together, and we didn't fight, and we didn't kill each other. And in Tours now, despite the obstacles that exist, we all live together, and we all work together. And in politics, all parties work together in the same way. This is the big change in Tours' culture. And in the long run, they say that Tours entered in the revolution. This is the democracy. We will sing, but we won't be able to do it. Hopefully, we won't be able to do it. But, if we want to preserve this experience, we need to promote the economic environment. We have a lot of big demands. First, the security demands, and the development of terrorism. And this terrorism has nothing to do with Tours' culture. We came from the whole region where Tours had a problem, but the problem is in the whole region. And we don't want to mention even the state, we don't want to make a diplomatic problem. This is the reality. What can we do? First of all, terrorism is in place. But, our friends have to deal with terrorism. What we want to say here is clear that the United States of America is dealing with Tours to deal with terrorism. But we hope to make it stronger, because the United States is called Libya and our borders are not restricted. We have weapons and terrorists. Especially in Libya, we don't have a state. We don't have a state. We have a lot of human unity. We agree with each other and say human unity and so on. This is my responsibility. I have to respond to this. Before I was president, I had to speak freely. Now, I have to take the threats. This means that first, they are behind. Second, they are in the north and in the south. What does it mean in the south? The government in the north and the government in the west. But they don't agree with each other. They follow each other. But in Libya, what they call DASH is called the Islamic State. And Islam is clear from this story. But they are terrorists and terrorists. And even some of them are living in Libya. They are living together. But the Arabs are moving to the neighboring countries. They have Egypt and Tunisia, which is closer to the country and which is more open. This is the solution to this problem. We should get closer to Libya as a country. We should get closer to the people of Tunisia and Libya. Today, the situation is not under control. But we also have in Tunisia millions of Libyans living in Tunisia because they don't live in their country. This situation is not under control. In addition, Libya is the country which is closer to us and which has a great deal and this deal will stop now. In Tunisia, there are three types. The first type is terrorism. We have weapons. Secondly, the deal between Tunisia and Libya and according to the statistics that are present now, Tunisia has lost this deal between Libya and Tunisia 5.7 billion billion dollars. As for the small countries, this is a lot. Of course, we have a lot of money to get Tunisia out of the crisis. Secondly, we have losses and we have millions of people who need security and other things. In Tunisia, there are millions of people living in Tunisia, we have to raise the level for the rest of Tunisians because the brothers who came to us have a bad situation. They have to pay for it and raise the price of land and buildings and also raise the price of living in Tunisia. All of this is clear. And this is difficult for us to reach the direction of democracy that we do not see. And for this, we with our homes are our friends who in their presence are the United States of America who we have been friends for tens of years. From the day of the independence of Tunisia, and it helped us in this, but as I said, in the last four years, the president of the United States went to Tunisia with the United States to return to the 18th century. The first state was Tunisia. And of course, when the independence of Tunisia came the first state that was recognized in Tunisia was the United States of America. This has been our relationship for a long time. And our relationship is connected. And after this visit I have brought the relationship between Tunisia and the United States to leave again because we want to end the independence. The future is a state of law in Tunisia. Why? Because because because the state of democracy does not succeed in any country except for the state of law. And the state of law is a family that focuses on the state of law. And we know this because I in general I am 63 years old and I am in the state of law. We know what we want, what we want, and we know what we have developed and we know what we have achieved. God willing, He will grant me what we need to be in the future. And in the future there should be a state of law but also the state of democracy should be established. And the state of democracy should be established first of all when the people, the terrorism and the security and the stability in our country. And secondly, we should focus on the economy which is the family in a difficult situation. But we should not be in a difficult situation. We should not be in a difficult situation. And in order to do that we should know why. We should know why. We should know why. We should acquire the the money I'm not going to bring the investments, and I'm not going to cover it. I, as a president of the Republic, have given these suggestions, and I have given them suggestions. But there are some difficulties. Not everyone is worried about them, not everyone is worried about the future, not everyone has a feeling for the country. But he loved what he loved and hated what he hated. He wanted to bring her back and he wanted to make her his right. He wanted to get out of Tunisia from the far away. If God willing, Tunisia wouldn't be left alone. Because when I saw him, I was alone. People were all telling him that the situation wasn't comfortable. If God willing, I will follow him. And that the thing that we did in Tunisia and the ones who made us happy and that is what they remember us. We made them friends in the United States of America. Half of them, only the two of them. And that's why, God willing, we will also follow this path. And we don't want to follow the same path. Even if we were alone. And he said that he was tired of making friends. And that he was tired of making friends. He made us hurry up with the great reforms that we had to do. He told me, God willing, how can we do it? We feel sorry for him. And before we end, what we want to say is that we in Tunisia, the system that is in politics doesn't even have a political sense. And we know that many of the countries that we live in don't even have a political sense. We don't have a political sense. We have the Muslims. You don't have to feel sorry for them. Secondly, how can you put them in the government? I am a Christian. The best. The best in Tunisia. Put a stable system. But the next generation will be busy and will be in trouble. And I will tell you that the best in Tunisia is that we don't have a problem. I don't have a problem. Because I am the friend of the election and the friend of the election. He is the one that we call Tunisia. He doesn't have a problem. He forgets how we all are part of the political scene in Tunisia and their president, that is, Sheikh Rajat Al-Ghanoushi, who I expected with all these things, helped us and helped his country and helped his movement. He was part of the political scene and was part of the government. Personally, I am happy with the people who are part of the government and who are part of the party. And I don't have the answer to this question. The party is there. The parties are there. Tunisia is there. And the country is there. I don't have a problem. I am in front of you. I am the president of the people of Tunisia. I am always in the best of success in this experience. This is Tunisia, today. I follow it. I see it as a unique problem. We have negative things. First of all, we have a leader. We are a people. There are 11 million. We have 610,000 people in battle. And we have 250,000 people in this battle. They are martyrs. This is a situation you are not aware of. Because the president of Tunisia told us that there are many people who are in the army. We are more than that. We have a leader. We have a leader. We have important leaders who are in the army. And we must continue with this. In Tunisia, there was a revolution. From December 12, 2010 until January 14, 2011. What did the revolution do? What did it do? What did it do? What did it do? What did it do? What did it do? What did it do? How important is not to enter the economic movement. If the president didn't show this condition, it would be in the face of the democracy. Therefore, I say to all of our friends who thank us for this project. Through this success, we made it visible how satellites that if the economic situation is not going to end, and if the social situation is not going to end, we will be able to return to it. This is what you are going to say here, here in America, who is always welcomed in Tunisia, and President Obama is the first president to be welcomed in the revolution, and he said in Congress, the idea of President Obama, that he was welcomed in his life for this cause, and this is what you are going to say, with all the lighting, he saw him in Tunisia, he needed to go to Sanad, but if the army of Sanad was not going to return to him, the most important thing for us in this situation, this is what you are going to say, and God willing, in any case, all of our friends in the United States, Americans, President Obama and President Obama, who talked to us about this, and who encouraged us to the other side, and he said, this is the second time that he invited me to come to the United States, and usually we meet with all the officials, Mr. Biden, President, Minister of Foreign Affairs, John Kerry, all the economic and political demands, we are talking to them, and hopefully they will continue tomorrow, even if today is a big day, we are not going to the Congress, but we would like to come here, because you are here, you are doing it for the sake of peace, and peace is like a human being, living in peace, eating and drinking, and also working, and this, God willing, we will get the right, in your favor, and in our favor, if you don't mind, in your favor, God bless you! Mr. President, on behalf of all of us, in here in the room, and in the room, we have a chance to ask you some questions, if you agree, we have a chance to return to Tunisia before the American people, Americans know that Tunisia's history is back to 5,000 years, in a year. So Kurtage the Americans know that some of the battles in the Second World War happened in this place, and that there is a special report of the American army in Kurtage, and it is preserved in a wonderful way. In the beginning of the Arab Spring, that was in Tunisia, and I explained a little before to the Americans who are watching us here, how did you disagree with the fact that you live in Tunisia? That is why Mr. President, now you are returning to Tunisia for the American people and for the rest of the world. Is it possible that Tunisia can gather between the Arab and the democratic Islam or is it the exception that proves that when we look at the rest of the Arab world the democracy faces challenges so are you the subject of the exception? But the exception is the one who fights for it in the world and we are not the exception and this is related to the role of the United States in the United States and other countries. Tunisia can become the exception instead of the exception and the exception cannot be denied if it is always threatened because when we are the subject of the social it differs from the rest of the world in the Arab world and in the Islamic world so this subject becomes always threatened and for this I personally and I I am in the role that I have done with the United States during the war the United States has stopped the NIS and without it the NIS is still standing today the United States is in Europe with the project and so I also supported in the implementation of the usual case and our case is a normal case because if the United States and this is an example for the people of the United States you want to play a role and an important role and what he said in history is that it is done in order to allow Tunisia to remain the exception and it becomes it and we believe that it has the capabilities and so in the world it also has the capabilities to change the situation this we say our experience on the whole and this means that we do not reach and do it in order to implement this experience justice yes our country struggled we asked him about this and he said that he wants to go to the front and not to the back and he also said that he wants to solve and face these problems in your country so what is your view on this I am just a guest but we should know that the situation in Tunisia and I am speaking now in the English language the situation in Tunisia today is not easy it is a difficult situation complicated yes we believe that it is enough for human rights what do you mean a man or a man or a woman is all selfish but we there are poor people there are people who give us work and I think it is important to respond to that we have we have a story and he is not a Muslim we have a priest what did he say he said so if democracy is virtue if man's rights are virtue we can't appreciate them if we have if we don't have work if we have a lot of poverty what are the priorities I say the priority is to feed those who are hungry otherwise they die of course to defend their rights when they are in a cemetery but it prevents from giving priority to human rights and to those commissions that you mentioned so the two are not contradictory but there are priorities and the priority but the commission that we created in Tunisia Tunisia is the first country that created a commission for human rights that is bad the first one the first until now they are there even in the regime that we call the authority regime or the dictatorship regime it has always existed because the people are for that and I am the leader of the people the leader of the people and I can't be against that thank you Mr. President so let us open the questions here now we will open the conversation and the questions so we encourage you to say your name and your name and your job quickly I am an American Libyan and I want to see the relationship between Tunisia and Libya and I want to be a Tunisian Libyan Tunisian because we are two countries you should know the Tunisian people are the closest people to the Libyan people and during the revolution the Libyan Tunisia is the leader of this revolution and Tunisia 1.3 million people came from Libya from all the people because the whole world was there thank you and then the Libyan families were waiting for Tunisia and the Tunisian families because the people were tired the hope we didn't have was that the Libyan people would return to their senses and be their country and we would be happy because the Libyan country took its place and we would also be ready for the revolution and I am sure that our closest friends in the end of the revolution would agree with us that Tunisia and Libya wouldn't get out of this situation we are tired and tired of the revolution but the revolution for Tunisia is in Libya there are 11 in Libya the Libyans are in this situation they are fighting with each other I hope when the time comes people will return to their senses and the country will return and the Libyan government and we will be the first people to be happy and we will be happy in this situation in Tripoli in Tabrak in Darnaw in all the countries we know and I would like to know if you were Libyan I am in history and when I was Libyan I didn't have to mention this because we will be in the last meeting look the people who were Libyan came to Tunisia and they lived in Tunisia and when I was in Tunisia I didn't even know the name of Tripoli when we were in Libya all of them were Tripoli and the word Tripoli doesn't sound good people would say look this is what I am sure the truth is the creation of Libya and we are lost from the situation in Libya God willing and in any case we will be the best to bring Libya back to the real world Mr. President on the topic of terrorism regarding terrorism there is a large number of young people in Tunisia who have gone to Iraq and Syria how do you see the possibility to deal with this situation not Iraq not Syria because the situation in Tunisia doesn't allow them to decide they are young people they have a job they have a salary and then they have movements and also groups they call them those who are fighting with them to get out and they are in the process of getting out on the whole from the time that these things are going on we created the door to get out to Syria and Iraq and then every time they come back from abroad we will take care of them and we will enter them and this is difficult because the people who are waiting and they say that every day they are holding hands and killing each other and attacking each other this is a big problem we have to cut we have to be nice and no matter what our children are we have to be nice and we have to love them and hopefully we will send them to work and if they get what they want they will go to work and then people they will go to Tunisia and they will go to Italy and they will die in the sea because they will go to Flaik because they don't have any security and they will die a lot and this is what we will stand between Italy and Qatar because we are in harmony with Italy and if they want to stop each country if you want to stay in Tunisia a democratic country you can go there and you can go there Thank you My name is Josh Rooker and I am with Bloomberg and I am here in Washington Thank you Mr. President in 2011 there was a big program for the president of the state and the president of the state but the congress didn't make this effort in the last year Tunisia received $50 million of help for the democratic government while the military system in Egypt received more and they said that the American government is responsible for this and they left the Arab Republic and what is your message when the president meets Obama for human rights in the region Thank you and the message you started First of all I don't understand the Arab Republic I was invited in the JVT the 8th of 2011 and I was invited and I was the president of the Egyptian government and I was the president of the government not in this capacity I was the president of the Arab Republic and I was invited then in the beginning of the 4th of Tunisia if the 4th of Tunisia is confirmed then it is possible to call it Arab Republic this is what you were saying about the exception but we said the model should not be in Tunisia and we are still in Tunisia and the way but we are still in the economic success we are still in the economic success not available in Tunisia and if we want to make friends we can make the 4th of Tunisia and we will go to the 4th of the 4th of the 4th because I'm in the US and I respect her leadership I respect her people and what they want to do if we make friends we are still friends then we will make friends so I tell you I willammenance from the president because he is a bit heartless they took I know that our relations are connected, and we are together, and we know that the state of the United States is under each other, and that the leaders are under each other. In the TNS experience, they know that this experience is an example of a different kind of development. As I told you, I am not happy that there is only one TNS, and people are worried about it, and people are worried about what will happen to us, and people are worried about what will happen. But we are connected to these things, and I personally believe that the state of the United States is with us, and not with us. In the TNS, what they say is not true, they say it is not true, and we know that the state of the United States is under the leadership. But we do not have any problems, we have a whole world problem. The state of the United States is the poor, the world-class, and of course, the world is concerned about the whole world. But in any case, we will ask them to take care of us a little bit, to take care of us a little bit, and see if there is a way or a way to do it. Mr. President, we have time for one last question. We have time for one last question, Mr. President, which is related to the White House. A short question, because I know Mr. President, I am now heading to the Congress, where he will meet with the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties. I live in Washington. You are from Washington? I'm from the Green Party. Didn't you say that? You said you are from Washington. Yes, I said that. I have a whole world problem. What else? I'm not speaking English. Can you speak in English if you want? My question is short and quick. In terms of human rights in Tunisia, we believe that many of us in Tunisia will have human rights so that they can do religious and religious work, so that they can be like a single person, a single person, and so that they can be like them. We believe that the Tunisian government and the people understand them, but at the same time, it is one of the main causes of the conflict, especially the conflict. It is a threat to the people's security, even men who are against the conflict, and there are women who go to Syria. My question is, as a Tunisian citizen, how can the Tunisian government deal with this situation? My second quick question is, the Quranic schools that were opened without a previous date, do you think this is a way to distribute ideas? Yes, we are with freedom of wearing. I want to vote for him, I want to vote for him, I want to vote for him, I want to vote for him. Even if there is a Tunisian president who votes for him, I will vote for him. But, I want to vote for him. In terms of the conflict, if the woman wants to do conflict, she will vote for her. If she doesn't work with the citizens, if she doesn't participate in the administration, or participate in the coalition, she will have a better face. This is the best thing we can do. But, as a dresser, I want to wear it. But, with the freedom of the woman, I want to wear it. There is a human rights issue. As a dresser, a country that respects human rights is more than Tunis. But, the freedom of a person, it doesn't go to the freedom of the woman. If it wasn't for the women or the people, it wouldn't be good for the freedom of the man. It's not good for the freedom of the woman. But, the freedom of the man is responsible. A person who knows Tunis, he knows the responsibility of the society, the responsibility of his family, the responsibility of his home, the responsibility of his work. As long as this respect is respected, we respect it. Of course, it's like a country that doesn't have anything after marriage. I don't know how to explain it. I don't know how to explain it. I don't know how to explain it. I don't know how to explain it. But, the people who know Tunis, they don't care about it. In Tunis, I know that there are many marriages. But, when there are marriages, we go to the courts and we punish them. But, we don't have marriages. The rest is the issue of the life. People who live in Tunis, they don't have anything to do with it. Even if they leave the courts, it's a little bit of a problem, God willing. I wish you all the best. Peace be upon you. God willing. I hope Tunis will come back to me. Mr. President, thank you very much. Thank you very much, Mr. President.