Tunisia's Foreign Minister Nabil Ammar said on Tuesday that his country has no plans to establish diplomatic relations with Israel, and that the government is planning to introduce a law to criminalize contact with Israel. 

Ammar expressed the position in coordination with Tunisian President Kais Saied in a meeting in Algiers with his counterpart Ahmed Ataf and President Abdelmadjid Tebboune.

This comes after Libya's foreign minister Naglaa al-Manqoush met with her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen in Rome last week.

After popular protests and widespread condemnation, Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid al-Dbeibeh announced from the Palestinian embassy that he had dismissed his foreign minister and reaffirmed the country's opposition to normalizing ties with Israel.