Algeria: We will end problems with Morocco
Algeria-Morocco, Politics, 6/23/1999

Algerian interior minister, Abdelmalek Sellal, said his country has issued instructions to put relations with Morocco back on track. Instructions were given "to rapidly make relations with Morocco denser," Sellal told MAP bureau in Algiers.

He stressed the need to put relations between the two neighbor countries back on track through lifting all obstacles. "We are entrusted with progressing the work and we will rapidly set up the necessary mechanisms to settle the problem," Sellal said.

Asked on the global approach required by Algeria in settling Moroccan-Algerian problems, Sellal said there is no global nor individual approach. He explained that his country wants bilateral relations to be examined from their various angles.

Algeria had stressed the need to deal with Moroccan-Algerian relations in a global approach, in response to repeated calls made by Moroccan Prime Minister, Abderrahmane Youssoufi, to reopen the land borders closed since 1994.

"We have no right to err," Sellal said, calling for setting up mechanisms to definitively settle all pending issues.

Mechanisms do not mean bureaucracy, he said, adding that "what is essential is to agree on economic and human flows and to protect each other."

"We need to protect each other and we will do it," he insisted.

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