Bureaucracy
Hi,
What I mean - we organized a rally over there and till the last minute all the authorities (7 ministries were involved) gave us green light. We did the scouting in Jan 2010 being escorted all the way by Gendarmerie and sometimes Army. (We didn't ask for this, but we had no choice.) Sometimes 15 vehicles and some trucks, 60 people e.g. from In Salah to Amguid and beyond). For 4 of us  Big fuss about the whole thing.
Then the last minute when we were waiting for the visa - it just never arrived. Got a fax a week after the event should have been officially started, that they don't think it's a good idea. That's it.
That's the story really in a nutshell.
2 years of work and tens of thousands of Euros down the drain.
Lots of Hungarians and Polish were involved... hence my guess guys with these passports have problems with those idiots.
Another rally (way more professional and bigger scale) also get screwed by those bastards this year.
Unless they do some serious changes over there I'm not going to even think about that region...
g.
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