President Bouteflika: Defining new strategy to revive craft industry
ALGIERS- President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika emphasized Saturday in Algiers the importance of the role reserved to craft industry in the promotion of national heritage and the revival of economic activity underlying the need for attributing a particular interest to training and upgrading craftsmen.
Craft industry "as a main element of the promotion of national heritage ... which promotes the identity and the culture of a nation which roots are deeply enshrined in history" also represents "an important economic activity that is keeping on contributing to national effort for development and progress," the President of the Republic in a message to the participants in the National Conference of Craft Industry and Skills, read by Mohamed Boughazi, adviser in the Presidency of Republic.
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Messahel for collective organization of mobility in Mediterranean
ALICANTE (Spain) – Deputy Minister for Maghreb and African Affairs Abdelkader Messahel emphasized Saturday in Alicante (Spain) the need for Mediterranean countries to organize together the mobility in this region, ensuring that this effort is truly collective and advantageous for all.
"The challenge for everyone is to organize together the mobility in the Mediterranean region, ensuring that this effort is truly collective and advantageous for all," said Messahel while addressing the 2nd Congress of the Mediterranean North-South Dialogue.
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National Education Ministry calls for resuming classes Sunday
ALGIERS – National Education Ministry has called Saturday in Algiers the sector’s unions, on strike, to resume classes tomorrow Sunday.
Speaking at a national conference of education provincial directors, on the evaluation of educational programs, Minister Boubekeur Benbouzid called "for resuming classes tomorrow Sunday and catching up as soon as possible, delay in courses."
"While the authorities have welcomed the claims of various unions, it seems that strike of course continues countering the interests of schoolchildren themselves," noted Benbouzid in his speech.
He said that schoolchildren "continue to suffer the vagaries of a highly disrupted schooling which, if it were to continue, reduce, irreversibly their ability to cope with announced exams."
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Substantial progress in children's rights promotion and protection
ALGIERS- Significant progress in terms of children's right promotion and protection has been achieved by Algeria, which has launched the "Month of Algerian Children" to mark the 17th anniversary of the adoption of the agreement on children's rights and the 20th anniversary of its promulgation.
Algeria has achieved throughout the past few years important progress in relation to children's rights and to deal with their concerns, through a national children plan adopted by the government in February 2008, and which "devotes a global view on children's rights."
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Demonstrations of jubilation: 18 killed, 312 injured in traffic accidents
ALGIERS- Eighteen (18) people have been killed 312 injured in 211 road traffic accidents in Algeria in demonstrations of jubilation following the qualification for national football team in 2010 World Cup, according to a Civil Protection General Directorate's report issued on Friday.
According to the source, four new deaths have been recorded in Algiers (2), Setif (1) and Ghardaia (1).
An early report released by Civil Protection underlined that 14 people were killed in road accidents: 5 in the province of Ouargla, 3 in Relizane, 2 in Saida, 2 in Tipasa and one in each of Khenchela and El Tarf.
The greatest number of accidents was recorded in Algiers (60), followed by Blida and Chlef (16 each), Boumerdes (15), Tipasa (14), Tlemcen (13), Constantine (10) El Tarf (9), Tizi-Ouzou (8), Annaba (6), Jijel (5) and Khenchela (4).
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Foreign Ministry summons Egyptian ambassador to convey Algeria's "great concern"
ALGIERS- Egyptian ambassador to Algeria was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday where Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci asked him to convey to the authorities of his country "the incomprehension and great concern" of the Algerian authorities over the escalation of the media campaign in Egypt, said a Ministry's communiqué.
Medelci has expressed his hope that this media campaign "stops" as it "does not serve the interests of the two countries and the two peoples," the statement said.
The minister also reminded that Algeria "has taken all the necessary measures for appeasement" before, during and after the two football encounters, and "has strengthened security to ensure protection of the Egyptian nationals and their possessions in Algeria," the source added.
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The relations between the peoples of Algeria and Egypt cannot be affected
ALGIERS- The relations between the peoples of Algeria and Egypt cannot be affected by the reactions of some Egyptians, said Thursday here Abdelaziz Belkhadem, Minister of State and Personal Representative of the President of the Republic. "Ultimately, the relationship between the two peoples are very important and should not be affected by the reactions of some Egyptians," he said on the sidelines of the ceremony during which President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika received the national football team and coaching staff. "In Egypt, Algerians were guests and not the ones behind the attacks," he added, emphatically rejecting any "haughty vision." However, he said, "the Algerian people will never accept to be denigrated nor their symbols and history."
ALGIERS- President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika emphasized Saturday in Algiers the importance of the role reserved to craft industry in the promotion of national heritage and the revival of economic activity underlying the need for attributing a particular interest to training and upgrading craftsmen.
Craft industry "as a main element of the promotion of national heritage ... which promotes the identity and the culture of a nation which roots are deeply enshrined in history" also represents "an important economic activity that is keeping on contributing to national effort for development and progress," the President of the Republic in a message to the participants in the National Conference of Craft Industry and Skills, read by Mohamed Boughazi, adviser in the Presidency of Republic. 
ALICANTE (Spain) – Deputy Minister for Maghreb and African Affairs Abdelkader Messahel emphasized Saturday in Alicante (Spain) the need for Mediterranean countries to organize together the mobility in this region, ensuring that this effort is truly collective and advantageous for all.
"The challenge for everyone is to organize together the mobility in the Mediterranean region, ensuring that this effort is truly collective and advantageous for all," said Messahel while addressing the 2nd Congress of the Mediterranean North-South Dialogue. 
ALGIERS – National Education Ministry has called Saturday in Algiers the sector’s unions, on strike, to resume classes tomorrow Sunday.
Speaking at a national conference of education provincial directors, on the evaluation of educational programs, Minister Boubekeur Benbouzid called "for resuming classes tomorrow Sunday and catching up as soon as possible, delay in courses."
"While the authorities have welcomed the claims of various unions, it seems that strike of course continues countering the interests of schoolchildren themselves," noted Benbouzid in his speech.
He said that schoolchildren "continue to suffer the vagaries of a highly disrupted schooling which, if it were to continue, reduce, irreversibly their ability to cope with announced exams."
ALGIERS- Significant progress in terms of children's right promotion and protection has been achieved by Algeria, which has launched the "Month of Algerian Children" to mark the 17th anniversary of the adoption of the agreement on children's rights and the 20th anniversary of its promulgation.
Algeria has achieved throughout the past few years important progress in relation to children's rights and to deal with their concerns, through a national children plan adopted by the government in February 2008, and which "devotes a global view on children's rights." 
ALGIERS- Eighteen (18) people have been killed 312 injured in 211 road traffic accidents in Algeria in demonstrations of jubilation following the qualification for national football team in 2010 World Cup, according to a Civil Protection General Directorate's report issued on Friday.
According to the source, four new deaths have been recorded in Algiers (2), Setif (1) and Ghardaia (1).
An early report released by Civil Protection underlined that 14 people were killed in road accidents: 5 in the province of Ouargla, 3 in Relizane, 2 in Saida, 2 in Tipasa and one in each of Khenchela and El Tarf.
The greatest number of accidents was recorded in Algiers (60), followed by Blida and Chlef (16 each), Boumerdes (15), Tipasa (14), Tlemcen (13), Constantine (10) El Tarf (9), Tizi-Ouzou (8), Annaba (6), Jijel (5) and Khenchela (4). 
ALGIERS- Egyptian ambassador to Algeria was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday where Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci asked him to convey to the authorities of his country "the incomprehension and great concern" of the Algerian authorities over the escalation of the media campaign in Egypt, said a Ministry's communiqué.
Medelci has expressed his hope that this media campaign "stops" as it "does not serve the interests of the two countries and the two peoples," the statement said.
The minister also reminded that Algeria "has taken all the necessary measures for appeasement" before, during and after the two football encounters, and "has strengthened security to ensure protection of the Egyptian nationals and their possessions in Algeria," the source added. 
ALGIERS- The relations between the peoples of Algeria and Egypt cannot be affected by the reactions of some Egyptians, said Thursday here Abdelaziz Belkhadem, Minister of State and Personal Representative of the President of the Republic. "Ultimately, the relationship between the two peoples are very important and should not be affected by the reactions of some Egyptians," he said on the sidelines of the ceremony during which President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika received the national football team and coaching staff. "In Egypt, Algerians were guests and not the ones behind the attacks," he added, emphatically rejecting any "haughty vision." However, he said, "the Algerian people will never accept to be denigrated nor their symbols and history." 
