After a meeting with the delegation, Foreign Office Minister Tobias Ellwood said the additional security measures introduced by Tunisia will be evaluated but didn’t give promises that the warning will be lifted.
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TUNISIAN politicians are set to visit the United Kingdom to meet families of Britons killed in the Tunisia beach massacre. The exact size and duration of funding for the north African country has not yet been revealed.
Keith Vaz, chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee, also met with the delegation and stated that he will enquire with Home Secretary, Theresa May, on the process by which the travel warning was issued and consider how a failing economy would create a recruiting pool for Islamist extremists.
The meeting included talks on boosting Tunisia’s economy.
Speaking earlier this month, Mr Blunt said: “The Government stood with the people of Tunisia in the immediate wake of the gun attack and didn’t immediately change the travel advice when you might have expected them to do so”.
Mohamed Ennaceur, speaker of the Tunisian parliament, admitted he was surprised when Britain changed its travel advice.
“They want to kill off our democracy and destabilise the country… what is unsafe for Tunisia now will also become unsafe for other countries including Britain”. “Secondly, to convince the British authorities that the decision they have taken regarding Tunisia should no longer stay because it is a very painful decision for Tunisia and it is in line with the hopes of the terrorists”.
Mahmoud Ben Romdhane, the Transport Minister, emphasised: “What is happening is not just affecting the tourist industry but the whole economy because the various sectors are so linked”. There will be several hundred thousand more unemployed and we may go into recession.
Family and friends of a husband and wife murdered in the Tunisian beach terror attack have gathered for their funeral this afternoon.
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The officials said the travel advice could badly affect tourism and offered reassurances that security measures had been reinforced significantly since the attack.
