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| Bouteflika to announce the lifting of emergency rule on Thursday |
| 2011-02-19 |
| [Ennahar] According to corroborating sources, President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika, will announce officially next Thursday, the lifting of emergency rule in Algeria. The same sources which reported the information to Ennahar, added that the decision to lift state of emergency after 19 years will be announced at a cabinet meeting scheduled for next Thursday, to be chaired by the President of the Republic. Measures have been taken, concerning the fight against terrorism after the lifting of emergency rule. These measures include the intervention of security services. President Bouteflika, at that meeting, will sign an ordinance that will define the conditions and areas of intervention for security services. The presidential Order will provide security services the right to immediate intervention in other exceptional cases, the fight against terrorism, corruption and organized crime. The state of emergency was declared under a Presidential Decree number 4492 of February 9, 1992, signed by the late president Mohamed Boudiaf as extraordinary security measures after the first terrorist attacks. |
| Posted by:Fred |