Algeria and the US to launch a 3-year military program, McMillan

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US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Joseph McMillan preferred not to comment on demands of Algeria related to purchasing US made military equipments, saying Algeria wants to get access to new technologies and training methods in the frame of war on terror.

Speaking at a press conference at US Embassy in Algiers, McMillan said US government has adopted a “very clear position” regarding the criminalization of the payment of ransoms, adding that “no concession should be made to terrorist groups.”

He further assumed that that “We must now take up the challenge of making the international community approve this approach as proposed by Algeria.”

McMillan's press conference was organized at the end of the 4th session of Algeria-US military dialogue, which recommended developing military and technology cooperation between the two countries.

This session was co-chaired by the Secretary General of National Defense Ministry, Major-General Ahmed Sanhadji, as co-chairman of Algeria-US Military Dialogue, and the US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Joseph McMillan.

McMillan revealed, so far, that the Algeria and the US are bounded to a three-year military cooperation program, starting as by 2011.

As far as the controversy over the intervention of foreign forces in the Sahel region to track-down terrorists, McMillan said: “this issue is being discussed between concerned countries; yet there won’t be any military intervention of a foreign force only in a case of absolute necessity”.

11-11-2010

Source: El Khabar.
Link: http://www.elkhabar.com/quotidienFrEn/lire.php?ida=223409&idc=111.