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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Moratinos visits Maghreb before UPM summit

2010-11-12

Spanish Special Envoy Miguel Angel Moratinos arrived in Algiers on Thursday (November 11th) to prepare for the upcoming Union for the Mediterranean (UPM) summit in Barcelona, APS reported. The former Spanish Foreign Minister met with Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia and delivered a message from Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. On Wednesday, Moratinos was in Tunisia to deliver a written message from Zapatero to Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

Initially scheduled for June 7th, the summit was postponed until November 21st, in anticipation of progress in peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine.

Source: Magharebia.com.
Link: http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/newsbriefs/general/2010/11/12/newsbrief-06.

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