President Bouteflika receives final report on spin-offs of national reconciliation charter

A final and exhaustive report on the activities of the legal assistance committee in charge of ensuring the implementation of the Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation in Algeria has been submitted to the President of the Republic Mr Abdelaziz Bouteflika, according to the committee’s chairman.

“It’s a final and comprehensive report on the activities of the Committee since its creation (June 2006-June 2015). It also sets out proposals for the consolidation of the spin-offs of the Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation,” Mr Azzi told a press conference, held jointly in Algiers with the chairman of the National Consultative Commission for Human Rights Protection and Promotion (CNCPPDH), Farouk Ksenini. 

The report also focuses on themes relating to the content of the Charter and its implementation on the ground, the Committee’s contribution to its smooth implementation, as well as the measures and provisions for compensations to those families of persons still unaccounted, orphans and terrorists killed in the relentless fight against terrorism,” Mr Marwan Azzi underscored.

It should be noted that over 9 thousand repentant terrorists had laid down arms and surrendered to the relevant authorities as part of this peace and national reconciliation charter which has been implemented at a rate of 95%, the committee’s chairman stated.

For his part, the head of (CNCPPDH), Mr Farouk Ksentini asserted that “the Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation is not only irreversible but all its provisions must be duly applied.”

Answering a question on a possible general amnesty, Mr Ksentini said that countries that preceded Algeria in the establishment of peace and reconciliation ended up by adopting a general amnesty.

“However, it is up to the President of the Republic himself to decide about the general amnesty,” he added.

The Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation was adopted by popular referendum with an overwhelming majority of yes votes on 29 September 2005.