Algerian Foreign Minister, Mourad Medelci, asked the French government to give all the map of its nuclear tests that were conducted during the colonial period by the French army in many regions south of Algeria.

• Medelci called Paris to assume full responsibility and clean up areas affected by the nuclear radiation and not to focus only on the compensation of victims.
• “ Talks between Algeria and France on the question of nuclear tests preceded the issuance of the draft law on compensation for victims of the nuclear tests, during the visit of the president Nicolas Sarkozy to Algeria December 2007”, Medelci said in Algeria’s first radio channel, Wednesday.
• Head of the Algerian diplomacy said the Algerian demands which were communicated to the French government; go beyond the question of compensation, and France must assume its responsibility through cleaning the environment from the nuclear radiation which poisoned trees and stones, and caused great harm to the inhabitants of the region.
• “There is a group of Algerian and French experts, who were charged by both presidents Bouteflika and Sarkozy, to examine the necessary measures and overcome the case of nuclear tests then find a solution that would be fair to victims, but France surprised us with the draft law of compensation”.
• “Algeria is a member of the Mediterranean Union and it is keen to preserve property of the Mediterranean waters, but when we talk about the need to activate it, this is a question of positions and decisions by some member countries”, Medelci said about Nicolas Sarkozy MU project.
• “Algeria, like the other Arab countries, against the Israeli attacks on Gaza, and France has to review its position in order to allow the general secretariat of the MU to push the outstanding projects forward, because Gaza is today the world’s concern not only Arabs”, he said in reference to the position of France towards the Israeli attacks on the Gaza strip.