Abdelaziz Bouteflika
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"Abdelaziz Bouteflika" is an Algerian politician who has been the List of presidents of Algeria#Presidents/fifth President of Algeria since 1999. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1963 to 1979. As President, he presided over the end of the bloody Algerian Civil War in 2002, and he ended emergency rule in February 2011 amidst Arab Spring/regional unrest. He has also served as president of the United Nations General Assembly.

2010–12 Algerian protests/Protests in Algeria took place between 2010 and 2012; protesters demanded a regime change, as well as solutions to problems with unemployment, corruption, restrictions of freedom of speech, and poor living conditions.

In November 2012, he surpassed Houari Boumediene as the longest-serving president of Algeria.

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Renew dialogue and exchanges.

If you need any help, we are ready to help you.

If we don't change perspectives, we will miss the train.

New sacrifice in the interest of the nation.

People who have been so hurt hesitate to pardon.

We are turning the page, but we aren't tearing it, ... Islam is founded on pardon.

People who have been so hurt hesitate to pardon, ... It is so easy to say 'sorry' but in reality here it is difficult to swallow.