The World - News from Feb. 28, 1985
Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid offered to end a decade of hostility between his country and Morocco by merging all Arab nations in North Africa, including Libya and Tunisia, into a single union, Morocco’s official news agency reported. His only condition for such a merger is that the disputed Western Sahara must form a separate component of the union. Morocco broke relations with Algeria ten years ago over its backing for the Polisario guerrillas fighting for the independence of Western Sahara. There was no immediate comment from the Moroccan government on Bendjedid’s offer.
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