{"id":203747,"date":"2025-08-01T21:12:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-tunisia-has-borne-heavy-burden-our-position-remains-firm-in-rejecting-role-of-transit-or-settlement-country-says-saied\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T21:12:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:12:53","slug":"tunisia-tunisia-has-borne-heavy-burden-our-position-remains-firm-in-rejecting-role-of-transit-or-settlement-country-says-saied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-tunisia-has-borne-heavy-burden-our-position-remains-firm-in-rejecting-role-of-transit-or-settlement-country-says-saied\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: &#8216;Tunisia Has Borne Heavy Burden &#8230; Our Position Remains Firm in Rejecting Role of Transit or Settlement Country,&#8217; Says Saied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Tunis, July 31 \u2014 President of the Republic Kais Saied on Thursday received visiting Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The meeting focused on the shared commitment to scaling up bilateral cooperation in several fields, notably transport, health, agriculture, and energy, according to a Presidency of the Republic press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Among the key topics discussed was the need for coordinated efforts by all stakeholders to organise air bridges for the voluntary return of irregular migrants currently&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508010157.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis, July 31 \u2014 President of the Republic Kais Saied on Thursday received visiting Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The meeting focused on the shared commitment to scaling up bilateral cooperation in several fields, notably transport, health, agriculture, and energy, according to a Presidency of the Republic press release. Among the key topics discussed was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":203748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,52005,6766,5042,7559,8130,257,6941,23347,7602,8225,30748,9719,254,15067,4703,653],"class_list":["post-203747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-borne","tag-burden","tag-country","tag-firm","tag-heavy","tag-news","tag-position","tag-rejecting","tag-remains","tag-role","tag-saied","tag-settlement","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transit","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}