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Update: Monday, 14 April 2008    

“Relations with Morocco hostage of stagnation”

Bouteflika extends the suspense over his third term will
Monday Apr 14 2008.

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has preferred extending the suspense in terms of his will to run for a new Presidential term, while giving the impression that the Constitution amendment stands among priorities of his political agenda.

Mr. Bouteflika further qualified relationships with Morocco as “hostage of stagnation and we don’t acquire the ability moving it unilaterally.” However, in an interview with the Qatari Al-Arab newspaper yesterday on the occasion of the visit he is to pay to Qatar next week, President Bouteflika has not been explicit while answering a question over the Constitution amendment and Presidential Elections of 2009 issues.

He said: “the current Constitution has been adopted in 1989 and amended in 1996, while any constitution is apt to be improved in terms of it purposes and provisions on the light of difficulties being noticed in the management of State issues, and in order to meet requirements of clarifying the relationship between the State and its institutions.”

President Bouteflika further added: “as far as the upcoming Presidential Elections, they are to be held on their constitutional date by God willing, as we are to take the required measures to make them a success while empowering the Algerian citizen to exercise his right in terms of choosing his President convincingly, freely, and with full sovereignty.”

The President has tackled also relationships of Algeria with Maghreb countries; saying relations with Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania are quite different in their improvements comparing to Algeria’s relations with Morocco.”

In this context he indicated: “relations with our brother Morocco are hostage of stagnation and we don’t acquire the ability making them moving unilaterally.” On another side, President Bouteflika has issued a decree identifying the Skelton law of state owned industrial and commercial companies belonging to the economic sector of the national army.

The abovementioned companies are to be in charge of granting the army needs in terms of equipment, arms and ammunitions, while expected meeting national and international markets, on condition to subject all its transactions to specifications book.

These companies, which are to be created by Presidential decrees, are also expected reinforcing and rehabilitating defence industry and granting technology transfer and handling.

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