KHRUSHCHEV GREETS ALGERIAN DELEGATION
The largest delegation which the Algerian government has yet sent to the Soviet Union left Algeris December 18 in an Ilyushin. 18 plane for discussions on applying the loan of 100,000,000 rubles Labout $100,000,000] granted by the Soviet government bo Algeria when Col. Houari Boumédisne visited Moscow in October.
The important delegation was headed by Hadj Ben Alla, a member of the Political Bureau and chairman of the National Assembly, and Safd Mohammedi, likewise a member of the. Political Bureau and vice-president of the Council, The delegation included other prominent figures of the Algerian government and representatives of the principal mass organizations as well as technical experts. Alexandre Abramov, Soviet ambassador to Algeria, accompanied the delegation.
Among those to see them off at the airport were President Ben Bella, Col, Houari Bouméditne, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, minister of Foreign Affairs, Dizdarevic, ambassador of Yugoslavia to Algeria, and the personnel of the Soviet embassy.
On arrival in Moscow, they were received with the greatest warmth. Hadj Ben Alla was housed in a "aatcha" reserved for the most distinguished guests, and on the following day was seated on the platform next to Khrushchev at a meeting of the Supreme Soviet. Later in the day Khrushchev granted him a long interview. And in the evening, the delegation was feted at a banquet. In coming days they will be given a tour: of some of the most important centers in the Soviet Union.
At the banquet, Khrushchev said that he was convinced that the Algerian people were coming to the end of the "not negligeable difficulties which they had to face in their resolute combat against foreign and domestic reaction which sought to force this people to abandon their revolutionary conquests and to restore the rule of the oppressors.”
"The Algerian people," said Khrushchev, "will succeed in building a new way of life, constructed on socialist foundations,"
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He added: "We can note, to our great satisfaction, that economic, ‘cultural and other links are * beginning to bind our two countries to- ‘gather, We are convinced that co-operation between the Soviet Union and free Algeria will contribute to the consolidation of its political and economic independence and permit it to reinforce the successes ‘already achieved by the Algerian people in the short time since they became independent. n
In responding to Khrushchev, Hadj Ben Alla said that "the Algerians will never forget the conerete demonstrations of friendship made by the Soviet Union at the time of their Struggte for the liberation of their country.”
The head of the Algerian delegation continued: "The victorious Algerian Revolution intends to build genuine socialism in independent Algeria, taking into account the characteristics of this country and the .6xperience accumulated in this field by the peoples of the Soviet Union and those of all the .friendly socialist countries,"
A joint. statement was issued at the end of the day expressing the desire of the two governments "to develop fraternal relations between “their countries in economic, political and cultural areas."
On international. problems, the statement singled out "the coincidence of views on the fundamental questions linked to the reinforcement of peace, general and complete disarmament, and the struggle against colonialism and neocolonialism,"
Among the projects scheduled for discussion are construction of a shipyard, an institute to train specialists in the petroleum industry, and the construction of roads and bridges in the most poverty-stricken regions of Algeria.
CHOU _EN-LAI