President Bouteflika's visit to Berlin, “an opportunity to strengthen economic cooperation”

ALGIERS- The official visit to be made by the President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Tuesday in Germany, will set an opportunity for both countries to identify economic potentialities for cooperation likely to be strengthened between Algiers and Berlin, a diplomatic source said Monday.

This visit shows the shared desire to explore and better harness the complementarities offered by the potential of Algeria and Germany in order to “consolidate the achievements of a developing relationship over the years” , especially since the first visit of the Head of State in Berlin in 2001, the same source added. Leaders of both countries will have the opportunity “to review the state of bilateral relations and explore ways and means to boost t them so that to meet potentialities of the two economies,” a statement from the presidency of the Republic said.

It will also be “an opportunity to discuss issues of common interest and current international issues as well as the means for each party to contribute to peace and security in the world and in the Euro-Mediterranean region,” the source added.