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| Iran’s Khatami: Expansion Of Tehran-Algiers Ties Benefit Muslim World | |
| 2004-06-28 | |
President Mohammad Khatami said here on Thursday that expansion of relations between Iran and Algeria would benefit both sides, the region and the world of Islam. President Khatami further told outgoing Algerian Ambassador to Tehran Abdulqader Hijaz that Iran and Algeria should expand mutual technical and economic ties in light of joint efforts. Khatami praised the Algerian envoy’s performance during his mission to Tehran and wished him further success. Hijaz for his part briefed President Khatami on different agreements reached between Tehran and Algiers to expand bilateral cooperation in various fields.
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| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #2 bilateral cooperation in various fields this is no biggie - hell, the US has bilateral cooperation in various fields with France |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2004-06-28 9:41:23 AM |
| #1 IIRC, Washington is worried about Algiers going nuclear as soon as 2005, with Argentinian reactor and tech help from China (and France???). Ex.http://www.maroc-hebdo.press.ma/MHinternet/Archives_558/html_588/alger.html (in french, use babelfish) or http://www.fas.org/news/algeria/fbis-tac-98-235.htm (a bit dated) Spanish Intelligence Warns of Algerian Nuclear Potential "Cesid warns that in two years Algeria will have the capacity to produce military plutonium" Report by M. Gonzalez and J.M. Larraya Madrid El Pais 23 August 1998 Madrid -- Algeria has renounced the atomic bomb by signing the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and accepting International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections. However it is going ahead with a nuclear program which far exceeds its civil needs and in two years' time it will have the installations necessary to produce military plutonium, a key element in the atomic bomb. This warning appears in a confidential report drafted in July by the Cesid [Higher Center for Defense Intelligence], according to which at the end of the century Algeria will be technically in a position to produce nuclear weapons if its authorities so decide. The nuclear tests carried out last May by India and Pakistan have set the alarm bells ringing in the West about the risk of atomic weapons proliferation among Third World countries. For Spain the main focus of concern is the nuclear program developed by Algeria, with the technical support of China and Argentina. |
| Posted by: Anonymous5089 2004-06-28 8:51:56 AM |