President SARKOZI : sahara is not a matter of discord between Algeria and France

               President SARKOZY: Sahara is not a matter
                  Of discord between Algeria and France

11/7/2007

The French president NICOLAS SARCOZYdeclared on Tuesday 10th of July 2007 in Algiers that “the question of Sahara should not be a matter of discord between Algeria and France”

“Frankly I have enough problems to sort out, I acknowledge the complexity of the question, and the UN has voted for  a resolution qualified, even by president Bouteflika, interesting” he said in a press conference at the end of his talks, followed by a lunch with the Algerian president

“President Bouteflika told me that he knew the French traditional position, and he did not ask me to renounce such a position, he explained, according to his own arguments, that I respect the Algerian position. As to me i have not mentioned any matter of discord between France and Algeria” he added.

According to Mr SARKOZY “what is important, that things should progress, and sometime the MAGHREB union could be done on the basis of entente, between Algeria and Morocco, as we can not imagine the Maghreb without Morocco and Algeria

source (MAP)