The history of the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA)

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In the first step since 1995, Maghreb union committee meets in Algeria

ArabicNews.com, 12 May 1999. Meeting next week in Algiers is the first step of its sort since freezing work of the federation’s establishments in 1995. The election of the Algerian President Abdul Aziz Bouteflika has been viewed in Rabat and other Arab Maghreb states as an encouraging element toward opening the dialogue and reviving interest in the Arab Maghreb construction.

Maghreban officials in Algeria for revival of Arab Maghreb Union

ArabicNews.com, 18 May 1999. Officials from the five North African countries forming the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA) call for the revival of the union that they described as an inevitable strategic choice. Recent developments in the Maghreban region, especially the election of a new president in Algeria and the settlement of the Lockerbie issue, are seen as potential factors for the reactivation of the Maghreban process.

Libya’s Triki Speaks Of Progress In UMA Revival Efforts

By Bouazza Ben Bouazza, PANA, 22 July 2000. Significant efforts are being made to re-launch the five-nation Arab Maghreb Union (UMA). The UMA, which was created in 1989 by Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia, has fallen into a stalemate since 1995, primarily because of differing positions between Rabat and Algiers over the Western Sahara conflict.

Ça va pas avec les voisins!: L’Algérie s’arme à Moscou et Washington. Madrid veut ressusciter ses anciennes colonies

Libération (Casablanca), 24 May 2002. L’Union du Maghreb, un rêve qui tarde à voir le jour depuis 1989, se trouve être toujours l’otage des obstacles dressés par l’Algérie contre toute forme de règlement du dossier du Sahara marocain dans le respect de l’intégrité territoriale du Royaume.

Offensive diplomatique algérienne pour relancer l'UMA

Par Aomar Baghzouz, La Tribune (Algiers), 4 June 2002. L’Algérie prépare activement le septième sommet des chefs d’Etat de l’Union du Maghreb arabe (UMA) prévu à Alger pour les 21 et 22 juin en cours. L’intégration régionale, dans un contexte où les pesanteurs du passé et les différends du présent ont tendance à occulter l’impératif de l’union qu’impose le double processus de mondialisation-régionalisation.