The leaders spoke at talks held at the Roman Catholic Sant' Egidio Community, which has a record of successful peace brokering. No representatives of the Algerian government attended.
The opposition accused the United States, the European Union and France -- which is a member of the EU and the former colonial power -- of turning a blind eye to the crackdown on the Moslem opposition.
At least 10,000 people have been killed in Algeria since the army cancelled elections in 1992 in which the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front had taken a lead.
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