Algeria's Statement at General Assembly Debate on UN Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism

Algeria, speaking at the General Assembly on the Secretary General's Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism on February 16, 2016, claimed alleged "Islamophobia" was actually violent extremism. It also claimed to exempt the targeting of Israelis from a definition of terrorism, hence, actually promoting violent extremism. In its words:

"The struggle against violent extremism and terrorism must also include the rejection against xenophobia and Islamophobia, which are emerging as the new faces of violent extremism...My delegation stresses the need to agree upon an accurate definition of terrorism. Such a definition should be in the line with the United Nation Charter and the international law and should avoid any confusion between acts of terrorism and the legitimate struggle of peoples under colonial or foreign occupation to achieve their inalienable rights to self-determination and to peace..."