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Algeria, Morocco Trade Insults over Western Sahara
[An Nahar] Algeria on Tuesday branded as unacceptable comments published by official Moroccan media in response to criticism of its human rights...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... policy in Western Sahara, in the latest barbed exchange between Rabat and Algiers. The insults by the North African arch-rivals come ahead of a report to be presented to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday by special envoy Christopher Ross, who visited the region this month. In a speech read on his behalf by the justice minister, Algeria's ailing President Abdelaziz  Bouteflika... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term, who will probably die in office of old age... said an international mechanism to monitor human rights in the disputed territory was needed "more than ever." Bouteflika referred to what he called "the massive and systematic human rights violations that take place inside the occupied territories to suppress the peaceful struggle" of the Sahrawis for freedom of expression and association. Posted by: Fred 2013-10-30 |
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