Butaflika confers with Austrian official

Algerian President Abdul Aziz Butaflika on Sunday in Algiers received the chairman of the Austrian national council Hans Fischer. Present at the meeting was the speaker of the Algerian national people's council Abdul Qader Bin Saleh. Fischer said that talks during the meeting dealt with bilateral relations between Algerian and France as well as issues relating to developments in Europe.

The Austrian official added that talks also dealt to the policy pursued by Algeria and the successes it achieved during recent years.

Fischer and members of the accompanying delegation left Algiers on Sunday following a visit which lasted for three days.