Mustafa Ben Jaafar, the secretary-general of Tunisia's leftist liberal Ettakatol party and president of Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly, speaks during a news conference in Tunis February 12, 2013. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi
TUNIS (Reuters) - The head of Tunisia's Constituent Assembly has suspended the body's work until the Islamist-led government and the secular opposition begin a dialogue, the state news agency said on Tuesday.
Mustafa Ben Jaafar said he was ordering the suspension in the interests of solving Tunisia's political crisis.
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