Algerian Interior Minister: State officials signed humiliating plans for non-governmental organizations

Algerian interior minister Nourredine Yazid Zerhouni said State officials and deputies collaborated with non-governmental international organizations “which look at us as minors and carry plans in the way of Ukraine's orange revolution.The minister accused them of signing humiliating and non-acceptable conditions in return for simple supply of some projects in areas hit by terrorism.

“It dates from 2002 when the State decided to allocate over 100 billion Algerian dinars to supply a number of development projects in areas which were

abandoned because of terrorism,” said Zerhouni.

“Some non-governmental European organizations offered their contributions in the project by no more than 200,000 Euros provided that they could supervise the entire program,” he added.

Those organizations asked for excluding the State’s local and central institutions from the project and replace them by local associations. “Unfortunately, there were State officials who signed and accepted those conditions.”

 The Algerian minister wondered why those organizations come to countries where there are rich natural resources.

“They bring unknown people to teach us transparency and good governance. Would they mind presenting us their professional careers to prove their competences?”

Giving the example of Ukraine’s orange revolution which toppled the former regime, Zerhouni mentioned that those organizations work within a plan which aims at shaking Algeria’s stability.

He also gave the example of what happened with officials of French association L’Arche de Zoe who were sentenced for kidnapping 103 children from Darfur and   trying to take them from Chad to France under charity pretext.

“After this scandal witnessed by people in all over the world, they were simply released.”

 He added that it was a decision made by the Chadian government under pressure from France in return for intervening to save the Chadian president Idriss Deby from rebels.