H.E. Mr Tarek Azouz, Ambassador of Tunisia to India

What is your perception about the relation between Tunisia and India?

Tunisia and India established diplomatic relationships in 1958 right after Tunisia’s independence in 1956. However, relations between the two countries date back decades before that and here we acknowledge the strong support India extended to Tunisia during its freedom struggle. In fact, Tunisia established an office between 1952 and 1956, in Connaught Place in New Delhi, during the last phase of Tunis’s struggle against the French protectorate. Ever since our contacts with India were established we’ve had engagements in trade, cultural and economic segments. There have, of course, been regular political interactions through exchange of visits between leaders of both countries. At the moment we are trying to deepen our bilateral relations by engaging not only on the political and the economic level, but also on the level of people to people contacts, which go as far as to the time of Vasco Da Gama, who encountered Tunisian traders on the Malabar Coast.