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Abd el Aziz Bouteflika: Born on the 2nd of March 1937, in Oujda. He joined the National Liberation Army (ALN) in 1956.
Bouteflika ran for the presidential elections and was elected officially with 74% of the votes. They chose him to win the nobel peace prize because he is a national hero, because he could bring back the peace to our country. He presented the National Harmony Law which provide amnesty for AIS (Islamic Salvation Army) members. He improved the relations with the other countries and he declared that the fate of Western Sahara is an Algerian and an international matter. In his foreign policy, He saved the African and the Mediterranean Basin countries from the scourge of terrorism.
2. Lakhdar Brahimi: Born on January 1st, 1934, in Algeria. He was the United Nations special representative for Afghanistan and Iraq. He retired from his duties at the end of 2005. They chose him to win the nobel peace prize because he was appointed to lead a panel of investigation on United Nations staff security in the wake of the December 11th, 2007 Algiers bombings, on February 5th by the Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon. In addition, He was one of the founders of the Journal of Palestin e Studies called “La revue d'étude palestinienne”. Brahimi was also chairman of the Panel of United Nations Peace Operations, which produced the influential Brahimi Report.