Lieutenant General Saïd CHANEGRIHA, Chief of Staff of PNA proceeds to the official installation of the Commander of the Territory Air Defense Forces Command

On behalf of the President of the Republic, Supreme Chief of the Armed Forces, Minister of National Defense, the Lieutenant General Saïd CHANEGRIHA, Chief of Staff of People's National Army presided Sunday 26th, December 2021, the official installation ceremony of the Major General Abdelaziz HAOUAM, in the functions of the Territory Air Defense Forces Commander.

At the beginning and after the welcoming ceremony, the Lieutenant General CHANEGRIHA Saïd observed, at the headquarter of the Territory Air Defense Forces Command, a moment of silence in memory of the late Chahid “Colonel Lotfi”, that the command holds the name, and placed a wreath of flowers in front of his commemorative stele, before reciting the Fatiha in his memory and that of our valiant Chouhada.

Then, the Lieutenant General Saïd CHANEGRIHA proceeded to the inspection of the squares of executives and personnel of the Territory Air Defense Forces, to announce the official installation of the Commander of Territory Air Defense Forces, the Major General Abdelaziz HAOUAM, replacing the Major General Ammar AMRANI.

Afterward, the Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff of People's National Army presided the ceremony of handing over the national emblem and approved the transcript of issuing instructions.

Following this, the Lieutenant General held a meeting with the command, the executives and the personnel of the Territory Air Defense Forces and addressed, on the occasion, an orientation speech, broadcasted via videoconference through all the regional commands and the units of the Air Defense, in which he indicated that the preservation of the availability of the battle corps was and will remain an operational imperative of extreme importance for People's National Army.

On this occasion, the Lieutenant General underlined that the challenges that it is up to People's National Army to take require from everyone to work tirelessly to meet the requirements of an effective adaptation to the accelerated military developments, of a geostrategic nature.
At the end of the meeting, the Lieutenant General gave the floor to the executives and personnel of the Territory Air Defense and listened to their concerns.