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**Abdelaziz Bouteflika** **B**orn March 2, 1937 I fought against the French in the National Liberation Army and was appointed minister of youth, sports, and tourism shortly after independence in 1962. In 1963 I became Algeria's foreign minister. In 1974-75 i served as the president of the 29th UN General assembly. Then in 1979 i became the advisor for President Chadli Benjedid but i got dismissed in 1980. I Entered the election of 1998 as an independent canidate and won with 74% of the votes. Won the past two elections and I am still currently the 10th President of Algeria Geography: Located in North Africa on the Mediterranean Sea. Second largest country in Africa. bordered by Tunisia in the northeast, bordered by Libya in the east, in the west by Morocco, in the southwest by Western Sahara, Mauritania, and Mali, in the southeast by Niger. About 930,000 sq mi or 2,400,000 sq kilometers big. 28º 00' N and 3º 00' E Lies within the temprate zone fairly pleasent weather year-round <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Avg. rainfall of 40-60 cm a year <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Economy: <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Algerian Dinar is our currency <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Significant exports are Petroleum,natural gas, sheep, oxen, and animal products such as wool <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Trade mostly with Spain and Italy but also trade with Spain and the United States <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Unemployment rate of about 11% <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">25% below poverty line <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Growths rate: 3.5% <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Current account balance of about 32 million dollars <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Social Structure: <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Population: 35.7 million <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Poppulation growth rate: 1.2% <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Death rate: 4.6 per 1000 <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Life expectancy: 74 years <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Literacy rate:75% <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Religon: 99% Islam and 1% other <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Languages: Arabic and Tamazight <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Median age: 27.1 years <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Median male age: 26.8 years <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Female median age:27.3 years <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Refernces: <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">President Chriac of France: In 2002 made a friendship treaty with Spain and welcomed him to the capital in 2003 <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">President Triet: they met and decide their two countries had potential growth for development <span style="color: #252525; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">George Washington:met with hm and praised his recent developements Safety and rule of law: Main focus is to bring back stabillity and security back to Algeria. I posed an official amnesety for those whofight against the government or commit blood hate crimes such as rape and murder.

Participation and Human Rights: Has succesfully completed multiple treaties with countries such as Spain, Vietnam, France and Ethiopia. Also I support and created the Arab League. I was the the President for one year. We have a foreign policy with country's such as China, Brazil and South Africa.

Sustainable Economic Opportunity: In both of my terms I have created five year economical plan. With the second one we are trying to create more than 1 million housing units and over 2 million jobs the completion of the East-West 1200 km long highway, and the completion of the Algiers subway project. Also one of my main tagets is to bring the external debt from 21 million to 12 million.

Human Development: I launched national commissions to study education and judicial reform, as well as restructuring of the state bureaucracy.

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