Algeria, Bangladesh will not send force to Iraq
Iraq-Algeria, Politics, 8/2/2004

The Algerian Foreign minister Abdul Aziz Balkhadem announced that Algeria rejects the plans of sending foces to Iraq.

Balkhadem said during his meeting on Saturday with the UN envoy to Iraq el-Akhdar al-Ibraheimi that the " Algerian army did not go out any day from the national territories," stressing " that Algeria will not send forces to Iraq."

In Daka, an official at the Bangali foreign ministry said " we have repeatedly said we will not dispacth forces to Iraq except under the leadership of the UN." He added that " Bangladesh can not send forces to Iraq at a time the situation there is unstable."

Meantime, one Islamic group calling itself " groups of the 1920's revolution, the military wing of the Islamic resistance in Iraq warned on Saturday the Islamic countries against sending military forces to Iraq, stressing they will consider these forces as " occupation forces."

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