Prime Minister Ahmed Hachani on Thursday received Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi. The latter underlined the need to conclude a "preferential and advantageous" bilateral trade agreement to seal the close cooperation between the two countries, according to a Prime Ministry press release. Marsudi also underscored the need to further scale up cooperation in the fields of higher education and mining, and to boost the pace of trade in the phosphate sector. Hachani for his part, commended the long-standing and deep-rooted relations between the two countries, dating back to the 1950s, calling for further developing them in various cooperation fields, notably with the holding of the XIth session of the Tunisian-Indonesian Joint Commission in the course of the coming year. The two sides also shared convergent views on the Palestinian issue, in view of the genocide suffered by the Palestinian people, and called for an end to aggression and compliance with international humanitarian law. Source: Agence Tu nis Afrique Presse