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.

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

These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.

I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.

When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.

The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.

I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.