Tunisia Needs U.S. Support as Arab Democracy Hope, Marzouki Says
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Tunisia needs more support from the U.S. and Europe to fight militants and spur an economic revival in the only democracy to emerge from the Arab Spring, President Moncef Marzouki said.
“We are a little bit disappointed because we didn’t get the support, we expected more from Europe and from the United States,” Marzouki said yesterday in an interview with Bloomberg TV Africa in Washington. He cited a request from the U.S. for helicopters to “tackle the problem of terrorism,” and several aid conferences that produced “a lot of promises” that were never fulfilled.