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Algeria will always back just Saharawi cause, says Bensalah

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Shahid El Hafed (Refugee Camps), June 4, 2016 (SPS) - Algeria will always support Western Sahara cause until Saharawi people fulfill their objectives, the speaker of the Council of the Nation (upper house of Parliament), Abdelkader Bensalah, said Friday in Chahid El Hafed.
"We will never stop backing the just Saharawi cause until the achievement of Saharawi people's expectations," Bensalah told reporters following discussions with the acting Saharawi president, Khatri Addouh.
Earlier, the speaker of the Upper House, had paid tribute to the memory of president of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) and secretary general of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, passed away Tuesday following a long illness.
Bensalah recited Al-Fatiha, the first chapter of the Noble Qur'an, and signed the book of condolence. (SPS)
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