From Xinhua CRI English, February 13:
Tunisia’s interim government said Saturday that it respects the “free choice of the people in south Sudan to set up an independent state,” the official press agency TAP reported.
The Tunisian government expressed the hope that the “legitimate aspirations of the people in south Sudan for the edification of an independent state and the achievement of stability and development ” will be realized.
It hailed the “positive and constructive attitude of the Republic of Sudan which has clearly voiced its acceptance of the referendum and committed itself to establishing good neighborliness policies with the south,” the statement said.