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Abdelaziz Bouteflika (President of Algeria) — 4th-term inaugural address, April 2014 (Ennahar, full text): national reconciliation as his priority (the hand "extended to Algeria's astray sons" to return home) coupled with stability-first and an iron hand against terrorism; the national identity of "Islam, Arabism and Amazighity."

Arabic DZ flag Algeria 2014-04-28 Tier 2 — primary or translation 47 words

Politician: Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Original source: https://www.ennaharonline.com/نص-خطاب-رئيس-الجمهورية-عبد-العزيز-بوتف/

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verbatim · Arabic
إن أول هذه الالتزامات هو العمل وإياكم على الحفاظ على استقرار البلاد، إن يد الجزائر ما تزال ممدودة لأبنائها الضالين الذين أجدّد لهم الدعوة للعودة إلى الديار. إن المصالحة الوطنية تبقى أولويتي، باسم الشعب الذي اعتنقها وتبناها.

التمسك بثوابتنا الوطنية ومكونات هويتنا الوطنية من إسلام وعروبة وأمازيغية

English translation

translation
[Source is Arabic (Ennahar Online, Algeria — full text of the president's address); confirmed verbatim against the fetched page.] English: — "The first of these commitments is to work with you to preserve the country's STABILITY. Algeria's hand remains extended to its astray sons, to whom I renew the call to return home. NATIONAL RECONCILIATION remains my priority, in the name of the people who embraced and adopted it." — "...adhering to our national constants and the components of our national identity: Islam, Arabism and Amazighity (Berberness)." CONTEXT: Declared positions of Abdelaziz Bouteflika — President of Algeria 1999–2019 — from his inaugural address after winning a fourth term in the April 2014 election (he was later forced out by the 2019 Hirak protests). The speech restates the doctrine that defined his rule: NATIONAL RECONCILIATION — the policy of amnesty and reintegration of Islamist insurgents that ended Algeria's 1990s civil war ("the black decade"), embodied in his 2005 Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation (approved by ~97% in referendum) — paired with STABILITY as the precondition for any democracy, development or national aspiration, and an "iron-hand" security posture against terrorism. He also affirms Algeria's non-interference foreign policy and its tripartite national identity ("Islam, Arabism and Amazighity"). This is the post-civil-war Algerian stability-through-reconciliation / FLN-military-system pole — a distinct authoritarian model legitimated by reconciliation and counter-terrorism rather than by Nasserist revolution or monarchy. [Axes: regime-stance (stability-first; reconciliation / amnesty model; FLN-military system), democracy (managed; stability as precondition), religion-state / identity (Islam + Arabism + Amazighity; reabsorbing former Islamists), regional-stance (non-interference; Maghreb unity).]

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Bouteflika, A.. (2014). Abdelaziz Bouteflika (President of Algeria) — 4th-term inaugural address, April 2014 (Ennahar, full text): national reconciliation as his priority (the hand "extended to Algeria's astray sons" to return home) coupled with stability-first and an iron hand against terrorism; the national identity of "Islam, Arabism and Amazighity." [Original language: AR]. ennaharonline.com. Retrieved July 28, 2026, from https://www.ennaharonline.com/نص-خطاب-رئيس-الجمهورية-عبد-العزيز-بوتف/
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Bouteflika, Abdelaziz. 2014. "Abdelaziz Bouteflika (President of Algeria) — 4th-term inaugural address, April 2014 (Ennahar, full text): national reconciliation as his priority (the hand "extended to Algeria's astray sons" to return home) coupled with stability-first and an iron hand against terrorism; the national identity of "Islam, Arabism and Amazighity."." [Original language: AR] ennaharonline.com. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://www.ennaharonline.com/نص-خطاب-رئيس-الجمهورية-عبد-العزيز-بوتف/.
BibTeX
@misc{doc-document-53da7a87-d42a-49d9-b077-4f1ad4442831,
  author       = {Bouteflika, Abdelaziz},
  title        = {Abdelaziz Bouteflika (President of Algeria) — 4th-term inaugural address, April 2014 (Ennahar, full text): national reconciliation as his priority (the hand "extended to Algeria's astray sons" to return home) coupled with stability-first and an iron hand against terrorism; the national identity of "Islam, Arabism and Amazighity."},
  year         = {2014},
  date         = {2014-04-28},
  howpublished = {Online; hosted at ennaharonline.com},
  url          = {https://www.ennaharonline.com/نص-خطاب-رئيس-الجمهورية-عبد-العزيز-بوتف/},
  urldate      = {2026-07-28},
  language     = {ar},
  note         = {Retrieved via Tayyar at https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/documents/53da7a87-d42a-49d9-b077-4f1ad4442831},
}

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