Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.

I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.

I spent 24 and a half years in prison

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

Algeria is not breaking up.

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.

With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.