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EGYPT: ALGERIAN PRESIDENT LAMINE ZEROUAL VISIT

(26 Jun 1995) Natural Sound Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and his Algerian counterpart Lamine Zeroual set up a committee Sunday to work toward increased economic and military cooperation. The group will work on increasing bilateral cooperation, especially in economic and military fields. Both Egypt and Algeria are battling Islamic insurgents and in a joint communique issued at the end of the visit, Mubarak and condemned terrorism. The agreement came at the end of a two-day official visit by the Algerian president. Algerian president Lamine Zeroual and Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak held talks in Cairo's Qubba Palace Saturday on promoting bilateral ties and strengthening trade cooperation between the two countries. Officials say the talks centered on bilateral ties and trade exchanges between the two countries and regional, African and Arab issues. Earlier Mubarak praised the strong relations between the two peoples and expressed his hope that stability would be maintained in Algeria. Zeroual, who arrived here earlier Saturday for a two-day visit to Egypt, reviewed a guard of honor made up of the three services of the Egyptian armed forces. The state-run Middle East News Agency said Mubarak expressed his hope - as well as that of Egyptian citizens - "that matters are going to settle down in Algeria." Egypt and Algeria face Islamic fundamentalist rebellions that they have tried to put down with force. Zeroual, a retired general who formerly served as Algerian defense minister, was named president in January 1994 by the regime that seized power two years earlier to thwart a fundamentalist victory in parliament elections. He is serving a three-year term as a transitional figure who is to lead the country back to democracy. An estimated 30,000 people have died in Algeria during a three-year insurgency by Muslim militants seeking to overthrow the army-backed government. In Egypt, security forces have largely contained Muslim extremists to the province of el-Minya, 220 kilometers (135 miles) south of Cairo. The radicals launched a campaign of violence in the spring of 1992 to try to overthrow Egypt's secular government and replace it with strict Islamic rule. More than 760 people have died in the violence, most of them suspected militants or police. Zeroual has now left for the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, where he will attend the Organization of African Unity summit. Mubarak flies there today. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...