Location: Tunis – Tunisia
Language: Arabic
Voice: Natural
Duration: 00:05:39
Source: A24
Restriction: A24 Clients
Dateline: 07-03-2022
Storyline
73 Tunisian citizens arrived, today morning, to the Tunisian capital coming from Ukraine.
The Tunisian Airlines plane, which evacuates Tunisian citizens residing in Ukraine, took off from Krakow Airport in Poland and landed at Carthage Airport, where it was also carrying 17 Ukrainians, in addition to an Algerian and a Jordanian citizen.
This is the fourth flight to arrive in Tunisia within the framework of evacuating Tunisians residing in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian war on Ukraine.
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“I have a little daughter. It was not easy to move, especially by trains, as they do not operate as usual. I had to take three trains to reach the border city and when we got out of the Ukrainian border, we found the buses and the conditions were better. We had to wait because we were traveling by ferry and the weather was cold.”
- (SOUNDBITE) Hussein – Brother of a Tunisian returning from Ukraine:
- “We are anxious, thank Tunisia.”
- (SOUNDBITE) Mohamed Trabelsi – Director of Public Diplomacy and Information at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
“The Tunisian Airlines today brought 73 Tunisians, Algerian citizen, his wife, and a Jordanian citizen. This flight departed from Bucharest to Barcovi in Bologna and then to Tunisia. We will continue to work in the coming days to evacuate the rest of the Tunisians. We called all the Tunisians in Ukrainian to leave, but this will be done in an organized manner and coordinated with Ukraine and neighboring countries as well as humanitarian organizations. We have noticed in this crisis is that Tunisians and Tunisian youth helped us a lot to make the evacuation process successful in a record time. There is very large cooperation of Tunisians in Ukraine, as well as Tunisians in bordering countries such as Italy and Romania, who greatly assisted those who came from Ukraine.”
- (SOUNDBITE) Intisar bin Aitallah – Commissioner for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
“The truth is that everyone has been present at the borders to secure the arrival of all our community, whether coming from Ukraine through the Italian border or from Ukraine through the Romanian border. They were received, accommodated in hotels, and provided food, medicine, and psychological and physical briefing. The central administration in Tunisia conducts daily work to take care of them, in coordination with the Ministry of Health, which has set a plan for psychological care of the returnees. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, during this week, will have meetings with all Tunisian bodies and the authorities to consider the evacuations because it is of course important to evacuate the people but these students left their future in Ukraine and today there is a big question about how to follow up on their academic future. There was coordination with the Algerian side to evacuate them as well”
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