61st anniversary of Victory Day

Ministry of Foreign Affairs celebrates 61st anniversary of Victory Day
ALGIERS-The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad held Sunday a ceremony under the celebration of the 61st anniversary of Victory Day, chaired by Minister Ahmed Attaf, in the presence of executives and staff of the Ministry, mujahideen, and diplomats.
After laying a wreath of flowers in front of the memorial and reciting the Fatiha of the Holy Quran, a minute's silence was observed in memory of the martyrs of the National Liberation Revolution.
In a statement to the press on the sidelines of this ceremony, the minister said that "thanks to the Mujahideen who bore arms and fought the occupation, Algeria is free today and its people enjoy sovereignty and independence.”
In a speech delivered on the occasion, the Director General of Communication, Information, and Documentation at the Ministry, Abdelhamid Abdaoui said that the memorable date of March 19 "marked the end of a long colonial night that lasted 132 years and sounded the death knell of injustice and barbarism of the aggressor lulled by the illusion of distorting our identity and erase our civilization, our culture, and our heritage.”
He also stressed that "the Evian negotiations showed the genius of the Algerian negotiator who knew, thanks to his perspicacity and his faith in victory, to impose himself in front of the colonizer who would not have agreed to sit, as equals, at the negotiating table without the firmness of the Revolution and the faith of its leaders in the legitimate right of their people to self-determination and to impose independence.
"The oath made to the valiant martyrs requires transmitting this honorable legacy to the rising generations," he said.
That is why "the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune has shown special interest in the treatment of the file of memory and history," he affirmed.
The new version of the websites of Algeria’s diplomatic and consular missions abroad was launched on this occasion.
 
Victory Day: Algerian community in France expresses attachment to motherland
 
PARIS-Members of the Algerian community in France organized Sunday in Paris a rally to celebrate Victory Day (March 19), to express their attachment to their motherland, and to hail the achievements made under the program of the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
Brandishing the national flag and chanting slogans of support and pride to belong to their motherland on this day that has a historical symbolism, these Algerians, women, and men, gathered en masse on a public square in Paris, expressed their attachment to "national sovereignty" and castigated "the henchmen and traitors" unleashed against their own country.
The members of the Algerian community in France chanted these slogans: "Long live Algeria", "Long live President Tebboune", "Long live the People's National Army" and "Glory to our martyrs".
They also paid tribute to their country by holding up portraits of martyrs of the War of National Liberation and symbols of the National Resistance, and by singing the national anthem.
Algerian artistic and media personalities and activists had launched calls to the national community in France to participate Sunday in a rally in Paris to express the attachment of members of the national diaspora abroad like France, to their motherland and defend "national sovereignty and the interests of the country, and to make a united front against the conspirators and traitors, supporters of enemy parties.”