This affords me the opportunity to send my warmest greetings to yourselves and to your families. We know that you are the real Ambassadors of our Nation. The fact that you have succeeded and that you are winners in this land where competition waits for no one is a testimony to your talents and to your steadfastedness.
Tribute indeed deserves to be paid to our law abiding community in the United States.
It is the policy of the Government that service to our Community abroad should be up-graded. I also believe personally that we owe this to you all. I will therefore do my very best to respond to the concerns which some of you might have and pledge to do my utmost to reduce bureaucratic hurdles that you may encounter. You must be aware however that these are not erected by our Consular services so much as by regulations back home which sometime take a life of their own. We have just been authorized henceforth to deliver registration cards to any Algerian citizen whose name has been sent by the Embassy to Algiers for clearance and for which we receive no response for more than a 3 month-period.