Brussels, 29/06/2001 (Agence Europe) - An appeal from MEPs calling for the setting in place of an Euro-Algerian committee of inquiry on current events in Algeria and the suspension, "pending conclusions", of negotiations under way on the EU/Algeria association agreement, will be launched on 4 July in Strasbourg, at the initiative of the Greens, Hélène Flautreu and Daniel Cohn-Bendit.
Furthermore, at the invitation of the members of the EUL/NGL group, Yasmine Boudjenah, Marianne Eriksson and Laura Gonzalez Alvarez, several representatives from Algerian opposition movements, mainly in Kabylie, will be in Strasbourg on 3 July. Among them, Zazi Sadou, spokesperson for the Algerian Movement for democratic women and Badredine Saïd Djahnine, member of the interdepartmental coordination of the village committees of Kabylie. MEPs stress that the imposing peaceful demonstrations, from Kabylie, are violently repressed in Algeria but that, despite the "attempts at intimidation (…), provocation and comments stating that the movement is of a regionalist kind, the expression of strong demands is growing".