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Algeria suspends Spain cooperation over Western Sahara dispute

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Morocco's Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch in Rabat on 7 April 2022. © Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP

Algeria has suspended a 20-year-old cooperation treaty with Spain after Madrid reversed decades of neutrality on the Western Sahara conflict.

"Algeria has decided to immediately suspend the treaty of friendship, good neighbourliness and cooperation" signed with Madrid in 2002, the presidency said in a statement on Wednesday.

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