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Algeria and Spain continue to strengthen their security cooperation through a new meeting of their Joint Commission held this Tuesday in Madrid. This meeting made it possible to examine ways to consolidate bilateral coordination in the fight against terrorism, organized crime and illegal immigration. This was indicated on Tuesday in a press release from the Spanish Ministry of the Interior.
The Spanish Director General of International Relations, Elena Garzón, and the Director of Cooperation at the Algerian Ministry of the Interior, Local Government and Transport, Kamel Kaili, led the work of the Joint Commission for monitoring the security convention between Spain and Algeria, we read in the press release.
The Convention on Security and the Fight against Organized Crime, signed in Algiers on June 15, 2008 between Spain and the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, aims to consolidate joint cooperation in security matters, particularly in the prevention and fight against terrorism and organized crime, in the service of the shared interests of the two nations, it is noted from the same source.
In this wake, the discussions focused on several aspects of common interest of the partnership between the two countries, in particular the fight against human trafficking, illegal immigration, terrorism and organized crime, the press release concluded.
As a reminder, last February, the former Minister of the Interior, Brahim Merad, went to Madrid for a two-day official visit, during which “he met his Spanish counterpart, Fernando Grande-Marlaska. This visit marked an important step in the relaunch of bilateral dialogue after the diplomatic crisis of 2022,” reported a press release from the ministry.
At the end of this meeting, “the two parties reaffirmed their desire to strengthen security cooperation, in particular through the intensification of the exchange of strategic and operational information in the areas of the fight against terrorism, transnational crime, irregular immigration and drug and human trafficking”, underlined the same source.
This dynamic is part, according to the ministry, “of a common desire to face regional challenges and to consolidate cooperation deemed strategic by the two countries”.