Algeria and Spain agree on speeding up Maghreb construction

Algeria and Spain have agreed on the need to speed up the edification of the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA), a north African regional grouping made up of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mauritania and Libya.

A joint communique released, in Algiers Thursday, at the end of a two-day visit to Algiers by Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, said the two countries greeted the significant progress achieved part of cooperation between member countries of the "5+5 Dialogue" (made up of countries from the Northern and Southern banks of the Mediterranean) which will hold its summit December 4-6 in Tunis.