20110627 xinhua ALGIERS, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Speaker of Algerian Council of the Nation (upper house of Parliament) Abdelkader Bensalah, met on Monday in Algiers the secretary of Foreign Affairs at the General People's Congress of Libya Slimane Chahoumi.
A statement issued by the Council of the Nation mentioned that the Libyan special envoy arrived Sunday in Algiers from Tunisia, and then he will head to Mauritania.
The statement has not delivered further details on the content of the talks.
Algeria said it supports a peaceful solution to the Libyan crisis through dialogue, rejecting, however, foreign military intervention against Muammar Gaddafi's regime.
Algeria has also rejected the departure of Gaddafi before launching dialogues, as required by the Libyan rebels.
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