CAIRO
The National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces on Thursday called on Tunisia to reconsider its decision to re-establish diplomatic ties with the Syrian government.
"This is a wrong decision," Haitham al-Maleh, the head of the Legal Committee of the coalition, told The Anadolu Agency.
"Re-establishing relations with the Assad regime is a dangerous thing that targets the revolutions in both Tunisian and Syria," he added.
Earlier Thursday, Tunisia said it would re-establish diplomatic relations with Damascus three years after severing them.
"We will open a consulate or assign a charge d'affaires to Syria," Foreign Minister Taieb Bakouch told a press conference in Tunisian capital Tunis.
He said Damascus, meanwhile, had been invited to send its ambassador back to Tunis.
"We have decided to unfreeze our diplomatic representation in Syria and Libya," Bakouch said.
Tunisia severed diplomatic relations with Damascus in 2012 and expelled the ambassador, citing the high civilian death toll in Syria's ongoing conflict.
Syria has been rocked by a deadly civil war since 2011, when President Bashar al-Assad responded to anti-government protests with a violent crackdown.
The four-year conflict has left up to 210,000 people dead, according to UN data.
