Arabic News Weekly Edition for Algeria, 10/4/2004
Weekly Edition, Algeria - Week of October 4, 2004
- Press: Polisario brings back military confrontation threat
The Moroccan press deemed Friday that the letter addressed to the UN secretary general on the Moroccan Sahara by Polisario secessionists' leader, Mohamed Abdelaziz, "aggravates the situation of Algiers" and brings back the "threat of a military confrontation option." Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 10/9/2004 - Morocco urges Algeria to allow UNHCR fulfil duly its mandate in Tindouf camps
Morocco on Thursday urged Algeria to allow the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) "fulfil duly its mandate in (Tindouf) camps," and voiced "support" to carry on the visit exchange program between families in the camps and their families in southern Morocco. Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 10/8/2004 - Morocco is by no means interested in 'the arms shopping spree that has seized Algeria', media
Morocco is by no means interested in "the arms shopping spree that has seized Algeria," said on Tuesday several Moroccan press outlets protesting the intoxication campaign conducted by Algerian newspapers. Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 10/6/2004 - Political leader: Algerian papers' disinformation shows Algiers' panic
The false news alleging Moroccan troops were intercepted in Tindouf, as reported by an Algerian daily, is a significant evidence of the panic felt in Algiers lately, said leader of the Istiqlal party, Abbass El Fassi. Algeria-Morocco, Politics, 10/6/2004 - Moroccan official: Algeria is suffering from Claustrophobia
Algeria is suffering from "claustrophobia" and is seeking, through the Sahara, to have access to the Atlantic ocean, said Monday Moroccan high commissioner for planning, Ahmed Lahlimi Alami, in an interview with MAP press agency. Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 10/5/2004 - Algeria obsessed with protracting Sahara Dispute, media
The Moroccan press stressed on Monday that Algeria seeks to protract the Sahara issue, thus making of the non settlement of this fake conflict "a geographical obsession." Algeria-Morocco, Politics, 10/5/2004 - Settlement of Sahara issue tributary of will of Morocco, Algeria, Tutwiler
U.S. former ambassador to Morocco, Margaret Tutwiler, said the settlement of the Sahara issue is tributary of the will of Morocco and Algeria to achieve more bilateral and regional political and diplomatic stability. Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 10/5/2004 - Morocco denies interception of Moroccan soldiers near Tindouf Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 10/5/2004
- New page in the relations between Algeria, Iran
The Algerian President Abdul Aziz Buraflika and the Iranian Muhammad Khatami yesterday stressed that the two countries have succeeded in eliminating any misunderstanding and to "opening a new page based on reciprocated confidence and respect." Khatami arrived in Algiers on Saturday in a state visits lasts for three days at the invitation of Butaflika. Algeria-Iran, Politics, 10/4/2004 - Two gunmen killed in a clash in Algiers
Security sources in Algiers said that two of armed Islamists were killed and two police men were strongly injured in a unique clash in the downtown of the capital Algiers on Sunday. Algeria, Local, 10/4/2004