Arabic News Weekly Edition for Algeria, 3/10/2003
Weekly Edition, Algeria - Week of March 10, 2003
- La Nouvelle Republique: Algeria shouldn't persist in a hundred-years-standby to support would-be state, Algeria's former defense minister
Algeria's former Defence minister, Khaled Nezzar said that his country "shouldn't hold itself in a hundred-years-standby to support the claims of a would-be state." Algeria-Morocco, Politics, 3/15/2003 - Algerian paper Al Bilad: former defense minister's statement on sahara shock therapy Algeria-Morocco, Politics, 3/15/2003
- La Nouvelle Republique: Former Algerian defense minister denies army role in blocking settlement to sahara issue
He further commented that the Sahara conflict is part of "a clash made unavoidable by a bad decolonization" and that "prejudices and mean considerations have turned into an obsession," the aim being to exhaust energies and prevent that efforts go to fields that are more profitable to people. For him, the scene of operations, which was often depicted as a conflict opposing Algerians and Moroccans, via the Sahrawis, has for long hidden far older, larger, more complex and more strategic disputes." Algeria-Morocco, Politics, 3/14/2003 - Algerian Al Bilad: Former Algerian defense minister's stand on Sahara issue premise for reasonable breakthrough
Nezzar, who served as Algeria's defence minister from 1990 to 1993, told Moroccan weekly "La Gazette du Maroc" that he opposes the creation of a Sahrawi state, arguing that his country "does not need a new state at its borders." Algeria-Morocco, Politics, 3/13/2003 - La Gazette du Maroc: former Algerian defense minister opposes sahrawi state creation
Former Algerian Defence minister, Khaled Nizzar, said he opposes the creation of a Sahrawi state, arguing that his country "does not need a new state at its borders." Algeria-Morocco, Politics, 3/11/2003