Future Nobel peace prize winners
In Algeria :
Our contemporary history knows two Algerian personalities who focused their efforts to make peace and to settle internal and external disputes.
1. Abd el Aziz Bouteflika: Born on the 2nd of March 1937, in Oujda to a family from Tlemcen. Abdelaziz Bouteflika joined the National Liberation Army (ALN) in 1956. After the independence in 1962, he became Minister for Youth and Sport than Minister for Foreign Affairs until 1978. In April 1999,
Bouteflika ran for the presidential elections and was elected officially with 74% of the votes. His election seems a turning point in the civil war that started in January 1992.
2. Lakhdar Brahimi: a veteran United Nations envoy and advisor. He was born on January 1st, 1934, in Algeria. He was the United Nations special representative for Afghanistan and Iraq. Before his appointment in 2001 by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, he had served the U.N. as special representative to Haiti and to South Africa. .He retired from his duties at
the end of 2005.