Editing Foreign relations of Algeria (section)

==== Algeria's centrality in the Third World ====
[[Pan-Africanism]] and [[Pan-Arabism]] were strengthened during the Boumediene era. Algeria had joined the [[Arab League]] in 1962, and hosted its 1973 summit in Algiers. This strong relation with other Arab countries, notably with [[Egypt]], was reinforced after Boumediene's seizure of power. For instance, in 1966, Egyptian president [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] sent thousands of teachers to support Algeria in the Arabization of its educational system. After Nasser's death in 1970, Boumediene increasingly represented the political project of Pan-Arabism; and in 1973, Algeria played a major role in the organization of the war against [[Israel]], as well as calling for oil to be used as a weapon in the [[OPEC]]. Moreover, in 1969, Algiers hosted the Pan-African Cultural Festival: this grandiose display of an African identity, forged from the continent's common experience of Western imperialism, reunited anticolonial militants from numerous countries of the Third World. Far from being opposed, Pan-Arabism and Pan-Africanism were, under Algerian influence, united: Boumediène summoned an extraordinary session of the Organization for African Unity following the [[Yom Kippur War|Kippur War]] in 1973, which resulted in the creation of a special committee to coordinate the Organization and the Arab League, and in the break of diplomatic relations of 42 African states with Israel. Finally, Boumediène presided over a larger and more powerful Non-Aligned Movement in 1973.

Algeria's approach to international politics was motivated by the need for a "liberation" from the Western neocolonial economic superiority. Hence, in October 1967, Algiers hosted the meeting of the "[[Group of 77]]", which united 77 developing countries on major revendications: a global reform of the terms of trade and a greater collaboration between Third World countries to set the prices for their raw materials. Furthermore, the main points of Boumediene's address to the United Nations General Assembly in 1974 – reparations for colonization and a transfer of resources from North to South – were adopted by UN. The notion of a "new international economic order" emerged as a way to reshape the world economy to the benefit of developing countries, based on the principle of sovereign equality between states.