page_title: Houari Boumédiène
section_title: Foreign policy
hierarchical_section_title: Houari Boumédiène / Foreign policy
caption_attribution_description: English: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi met Houari Boumediène and Saddam Hussein in Algeria at 1975 for register 1975 Algiers Agreement. العربية: الرئيس الجزائري هواري بومدين اجتمع مع الرئيس العراقي صدام حسين والشاه الإيراني محمد رضا بهلوي قبل التوقيع على إتفاقية الجزائر سنة 1975م.
context_page_description: Houari Boumédiène, also transcribed Boumediene, Boumedienne etc., served as Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of Algeria from 19 June 1965 until 12 December 1976 and thereafter as the second President of Algeria until his death on 27 December 1978.
context_section_description: Boumédiène pursued a policy of non-alignment, maintaining good relations with both the communist bloc and the capitalist nations, and promoting third-world cooperation. In the United Nations, he called for a unity built on equal status for western and ex-colonial nations, and brought about by a socialist-style change in political and trade relations. He sought to build a powerful third world bloc through the Non-Aligned Movement, in which he became a prominent figure. He unconditionally supported freedom fighters, justice and equality seekers. He offered logistic assistance to anti-colonial movements and other militant groups across Africa and the Arab world, including the PLO, ANC, SWAPO and other nations.
  A significant regional event was his 1975 pledge of support for Western Saharan self-determination, admitting Sahrawi refugees and the Polisario Front national liberation movement to Algerian territory, after Morocco and Mauritania claimed control over the territory. This ended the possibility of mending relations with Morocco, already sour after the 1963 Sand War, although there had been a modest thaw in relations during his first time in power. The heightened Moroccan-Algerian rivalry and the still unsolved Western Sahara question became a defining feature of Algerian foreign policy ever since and remains so today.
caption: The 1975 Algiers Agreement was signed by (left to right) the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Boumédiène and the Iraqi vice-president Saddam Hussein
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