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Algeria suspends Spain co-operation treaty over Western Sahara dispute

The Algerian Flag on the building of the Peoples Democratic Republic of Algeria embassy in Paris on October 4, 2021. © Lafargue Raphael/ABACA via Reute - Lafargue Raphael/ABAC

Algeria said Wednesday it was suspending a decades-old co-operation treaty with Spain, after Madrid backed the position of the North African country's arch-rival Morocco on the disputed Western Sahara.

"Algeria has decided to immediately suspend the treaty of friendship, good neighbourliness and co-operation," the Algerian presidency said in a statement.

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