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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9813

8 January 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/euromed
Civil society urges Algiers to pull out of Union for Mediterranean on which strong reservation has been officially expressed

Algiers, 07/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - Algeria has expressed strong reservation about the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) project that is being set up on the basis of recommendations made at the ministerial session in Marseilles on 4 November. Mourad Medelci, Algerian Foreign Minister, cited by the local press, reiterated on Monday the reservations expressed back in November 2008, saying: “Instead of a light, technical secretariat as decided at the Paris summit” (last July), the meeting...

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