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Nearly $15 bln pledged during Tunis investment conference - PM

Tunisia's Prime Minister Youssef Chahed speaks during a news conference with his French counterpart Manuel Valls in Tunis, Tunisia November 28, 2016. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

TUNIS (Reuters) - Financial assistance and investments worth a combined 34 billion Tunisian dinars ($14.8 billion) have been pledged during an international investment conference in Tunis, Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed said on Wednesday. Chahed told reporters that investment deals totalling 15 billion dinars had been signed, while 19 billion dinars worth of financial assistance had been promised. (Reporting by Tarek Amara; Writing by Aidan Lewis; Editing by Hugh Lawson)