Germany and Algeria reach deal in various sectors of activities

Germany and Algeria Thursday signed a deal regarding the technical follow up by a German research department of the great Algiers mosque in the presence of both the Algerian president and the German chancellor.

• The Algerian religious affairs minister revealed that the project will cost 1 million euros with a capacity of 120 thousand prayers. The German consortium was assigned to carry the technical and studies out pending the next step concerning the realisation of the project.
• Apart from this deal, various projects were on top of the agenda during the negotiations between Angela Merkel and Abdelaziz Bouteflika including discussions around energy, industry and defence sectors.
• The German chancellor declared” We talked about the bilateral ties, which a consider excellent, as well as the possibility to forge ahead a strong economic cooperation between both countries” .