Foreign Affairs Ministry: « Washington Holds A Distorted Image About Algeria »

The periodic updating of “Travel Warning,” destined to American citizens travelling to Algeria, continues to perceive the security situation in Algeria through “distorting prism and outdated stereotypes which do not reflect the reality,” said Thursday the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a communiqué.

The periodic updating of “Travel Warning” destined to American citizens travelling to Algeria, published on 13 December 2016 on the official website of the US State Department, “reflects, as usual, the propensity of its authors to perceive the situation in Algeria through distorting prism and outdated stereotypes which do not reflect in any way the reality of the security situation now prevailing in Algeria,” said the source.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recalls, to this effect, that “security in Algeria is structurally and permanently established thanks to the national reconciliation policy advocated by the President of the Republic Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, and the heavy toll that Algeria paid to defeat terrorism, as well as the all-out mobilization and vigilance shown by the People’s National Army and all the security forces nationwide”.

Algeria which “has made significant sacrifices in the fight against the terrorism plague,” added the source, is “extremely anxious about the sacredness of the human life”.

In this respect, Algeria “still undertakes, for itself as for others, steadfast actions of prevention of violent extremism and de-radicalization in a coherent approach as part of the reinforcement of international cooperation against the terrorism scourge,” the same source underlined.