Algerian president representative meets Trump in Riyadh

President of the National Assembly, Abdul Qader bin Saleh participates in the Arab-American Islamic Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as a representative for the Algerian president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
Abdul Qader Bin Saleh accompanied by Algerian Foreign minister, Ramtan L’Amamra is expected to meet US president, Donald Trump to discuss international and regional issues and fighting extremism that becomes a threat to many countries.
The American Islamic summit aims to establish a strategic partnership between Arab Islamic countries and United States to fight extremism and to make extra decisions to cut extremist organizations’ funds. Algeria had always asked the international community to apply criminalize ransom payment to free hostages, as it is considered one of the most important incomes to extremists. This request was greatly welcomed by many major countries including the Unites States, but there are still some Arab countries that still pay huge amounts of money to free their hostages from the extremist organizations.
Algeria hosted in February 2015 an international meeting about eliminating extremism, ransom payments and drugs. This meeting was attended by many international countries and it was supervised by Algerian Justice Ministry and the Foreign Ministry. At the same time, Algeria passed the law on money laundering prevention and fighting extremism and its financing.
Chairman of the Algerian-African Peace and Reconciliation Commission, Ahmed Mezab said that, extremist organizations gained more than 220 million dollars from ransoms, and this money helped them to expand and obtain more weapons, praising the Algerian experiment in fighting extremism and armed groups during “Embers’ Years”. This experiment helped Algeria to move from receiving strikes to defense and prevention, then draining extremists’ sources of funding.