Algeria denies changes in diplomatic corps

Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci denied on Sunday any changing in the diplomatic corps, stressing that Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, is the only one who can carry out this changes. In a joint conference with his Ethiopian counterpart, Medelci said that the Algerian Constitution says that any changes in the diplomatic corps must be carried out by the president. A local newspaper reported that the Algerian foreign ministry will launch a large movement of change, transfer, exclusion, isolation and referring to retirement in the diplomatic corps, which included especially ambassadors, consuls and representatives of Algerian diplomacy in the large capitals of the world and most important European and Arab countries