Algeria reaffirms commitment for Mali and Libya territorial integrity

Algeria’s efforts for peace in Mali and Libya show its commitment to preserving the territorial integrity in those two neighbouring countries, the speaker of the People’s National Assembly (Lower House of Parliament), Mohamed Larbi Ould Khelifa, has said.
Ould Khelifa, who received the chairman of French Senate’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Armed Forces, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, said Algeria’s moves to encourage dialogue among the parties to the conflict are aimed at “meeting the aspirations of those countries’ peoples to security and stability,” the Lower House’s statement said Sunday.
Algeria’s efforts in this respect are, in no way, meant to serve on side to the detriment of another,” he stressed.
Ould Khelifa warned against terrorism which, he said, “constitutes a threat to everybody.”
He underlined the need for a “firm will to eradicate the scourge, which has neither border nor religion.”