AIRCRAFT TAXIIS IN; BOUTEFLIKA OUT OF AIRCRAFT; GREETED BY HAMID OULD MOUKNASS; BOUTEFLIKA AND PARTY ACROSS TARMAC; CARS LEAVE; BOUTEFLIKA WITH OULD DADDAH.




Initials JB/VS/AE/SGM



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Background: ALGERIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER, MR ABDEL AZIZ BOUTEFLIKA, LEAD AN OFFICIAL ALGERIAN DELEGATION WHICH HAS MADE A THREE-DAY VISIT TO MAURITANIA. THE ALGERIANS HAD TALKS WITH MAURITANIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS.

DURING HIS VISIT MR BOUTEFLIKA MET THE MAURITANIAN PRESIDENT, MR MOKTAR OULD DADDAH IN NOUAKCHOTT.

MR BOUTEFLIKA ALSO HAD TALKS WITH THE MAURITANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, MR HAMID OULD MOUKNASS AND THE TWO MINISTERS LATER VISITED THE INLAND CENTRE OF NOUADHIBOU.

THEIR TALKS TOUCHED ON THE QUESTION OF MAURITANIA JOINING THE ALGERIA, TUNISIA, MOROCCO AND LIBYA IN AN ARAB ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AFRICA.

MR BOUTEFLIKA ANNOUNCED THE INSTITUTION OF A JOINT PERMANENT COMMITTEE TO CARRY OUT AGREEMENTS BETWEEN MAURITANIA AND ALGERIA. HE ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT PRESIDENT BOUMEDIENNE OF ALGERIA WOULD MAKE AN OFFICIAL VISIT TO MAURITANIA AT A DATE TO BE FIXED LATER.