Algeria Mauritania, Mali and Niger, agree to cooperate against smuggling

Algeria, Mauritania, Mali and Niger on Saturday reached an agreement against smuggling across their borders, ABC News reported.

The Algerian News Agency (APS) said on Saturday that the talks dealt with "struggle against networks of arms dealing, drug traffic and contraband goods but also the control of migratory flows."

APS quoted Algerian Interior Minister Yazid Zerhouni as saying that Algeria sees the meetings as "the confirmation of the existence of a joint political will to carry on and to deepen bilateral relations at an important moment of their positive evolution and to consolidate them in the more useful vision of a space of an extended consultation between the four countries with common borders, history and concerns."