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Account of the Political Visit of Ferhat Mehenni to Quebec

Association Quebec-Kabylia

Sunday, 14 June 2009 / MAK

During his last visit to Quebec, Mr. Ferhat Mehenni, President of the Movement for Autonomy of Kabylia (MAK) has had to meet with Quebec key political figures of high rank.

Indeed, after the conference he has held at the University of Quebec at Montreal, he was among the guests at the grand rally of the Movement French Montreal (French: Mouvement Montréal Français) where he had discussions with the key figures present at this event. Among other gentlemen, Mario Beaulieu President of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society (French: Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste), Mr. Jean Dorion his predecessor and current deputy of the Quebec Bloc (French: Bloc Quebecois), Pierre Curzi deputy of the Quebec Party (French: Parti québécois) in charge of education and culture, after having meeting again the leader of the official opposition in the National Assembly, Pauline Marois, and Gilles Duceppe leader of the Quebec Bloc, one of the opposition parties in the House of Commons in Ottawa.

Sunday June 7, he attended a joint meeting with Ms. Francine Lalonde and Viviane Barbot, MPs of the Quebec Bloc, respectively, spokeswoman for the party in terms of international affairs for the first and vice-president of this political party for the second.

Ms. Lalonde is also the only deputy who has denounced the sad events of 2001 in Kabylia. And this, at a time when the Prime Minister of Canada on a visit to Algiers was talking about oil with Bouteflika whilst an armed repression was at its heights in Tizi-Ouzou and the Kabyle diaspora was marching in the streets of Montreal.

Tuesday, June 9, the President of the MAK was awaited in the office of the Quebec Party, where he had a successful discussion with Madam Louise Beaudouin deputy of the official opposition in the National Assembly and spokeswoman on international relations. Madam Beaudouin is being known as one of the defenders of cultural diversity in the world.

During these political meetings where he discussed topics of common interests, Mr. Mehenni was accompanied by the gentlemen Amar Nessah and Rachid Bandou who were joined, in the first meeting, by Pierre L’Heureux, President of the Executive of the Quebec Party in Vimont Laval.

A.Q.K.

14 JUIN 2009

Tanslated into English by Izemrasen