Clinton: Washington is Willing to Cooperate with The Renaissance Party of Tunisia

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 Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State, said ,  it is ready to cooperate with the Islamic Renaissance Party, the winner of the Tunisian elections. In turn, said French Foreign Minister that he wants to believe in this party, who confirmed that he respected the freedoms and democracy.
 

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington was ready to cooperate with the Islamists who won in the Tunisian elections, saying that the “Islamists are not all equal.” Said Clinton, as quoted by the AFP, in a speech that “DI”, a center for the defense of democracy and close to the Democratic Party, “those responsible for the Renaissance Party to convince the secular parties to work with them,” adding that “America is also will work with them.” .

Clinton said that the Renaissance Party promised to respect religious freedom and women’s rights. She also noted that many of the Islamist parties in the natural world are engaged in the game of democracy. “She explained that” the idea that Muslims practitioners can not flourish in a democracy is only the idea of ​​degrading and wrong. “

She enumerated the Clinton criteria that must be respected by each party respects democracy is the rejection of violence and to join the state of law and respect for freedoms and respect for the rights of women, minorities, and accept the principle of electoral defeat and refused to stir religious tensions. “The Minister of Foreign Affairs also said that the United States continues to support the spring of Arab despite” uncertainty ” the ongoing transition processes.

Clinton’s remarks to Seth is the first of this type to a Western official, as Foreign Minister Alain Juppe earlier this week to radio “Europe 1″ he wanted “to trust” with officials of the Islamic Renaissance Party, which won the elections in Tunisia and “work with them.” Juppe said “is not in any revolution in an atmosphere of complete calm. There will be difficulties and we should trust” them.

“When I listened to the speech (…) Renaissance Party officials say we want a country where Islam spread, but also respects the principles of democracy and especially the pledge not to damage the status of women and even improve it, so why not believe them?”. He said the French Ambassador in Tunisia, “tells me that the officials of the Renaissance speech worth listening to. And therefore we will continue to communicate with them,” We remain vigilant about some of the principles of democracy.

In comments to Reuters, said Rashid Ghannouchi, leader of the Renaissance Party (70 years), a Muslim activist who was imprisoned and exile during the rule of the two presidents during the reigns of the late deposed Habib Bourguiba, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, that his party against the attempt to impose a particular way of life. And by Tunisian and foreign critics of the Renaissance Party expressed fears that the party is trying to impose religious principles on these relatively secular Muslim state. The moderate Islamic Revival Party won 41.7 per cent in the first free elections in Tunisia on October 23