Qatar: Abdullah Bin Nasser in Algeria
Issue 990
- 03 Apr 2015
| 1 minute read
Algerian commentators have been digesting the implications of the three-day visit in early March of Qatari prime minister and interior minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser Bin Khalifa Al-Thani. This gave an official launch to several projects, led by the Bellara steel works, and was also seen to mark another step in the rapprochement between two long-standing allies. Bilateral relations had become strained following the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings, which Algeria largely avoided but which many Algerians, including the senior leadership, believed were driven elsewhere by Al Jazeera Satellite Channel and Qatari politicking. As well as spending time with his counterpart, Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal, Sheikh Abdullah held talks with President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in a visit said in Algiers to have taken relations to a new, much warmer level.
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