Algerian parliamentarians oppose intervention in Algerian internal affairs

Some 100 members in the Algerian Parliament signed a memorandum condemning attempts aiming at undermining the Algerian state's institutions.

Persons who signed the memorandum stressed their categorical rejection of any foreign intervention regardless of its source and under any cover. The Parliamentarians pledged to honor enforced laws in the Algerian republic and to deal with national issues within set institutional rules.

Meanwhile, members of the UN team studying the conditions in Algeria, led by former Portuguese President Mario Soares, met with several Algerian figures. The team met with a member of the families of terrorism victims society, Maila Aslawi, and with the chairperson of the national society for terrorism victims' families, Zahra Faleisi.

The team also met with members of the "Our Algeria" society.

Aslawi, whose husband, a doctor, was killed by armed attackers in 1994, said during her meeting with the team that she felt their understanding, adding that talks dealt with human rights, terrorism, societies, family laws and women's struggles.

Mohamed Taheri, an Islamic lawyer, refused to make a statement to the press after he left the headquarters of the international delegation in the Algerian capital.

The international delegation listened to Taheri at his request, and it received from him a file about the party's lawyers. Teheri also answered questions from the international committee members.

Close sources said that Tahery has assured the team that the crisis in Algeria is due to the cancellation of the elections in 1992 and related developments.