UNITED NATIONS, April 12 (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council on Thursday strongly condemned bombings that killed 33 people in Algiers this week and urged all states to help Algerian authorities bring the perpetrators to justice.

A statement read at a formal meeting by the current council president, British Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry, condemned the suicide blasts "in the strongest terms" and voiced sympathy to victims, their families and Algeria's government and people.

"The Security Council underlines the need to bring perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of these reprehensible acts of terrorism to justice, and urges all states ... to cooperate actively with the Algerian authorities in this regard," it said.

It was the second top-level statement in two days from the United Nations on Wednesday's bombings, which have raised fears in the North African country of a return to the political bloodshed of the 1990s.

On Wednesday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also condemned it as a deplorable incident, which "shows the need for concerted international action against terrorism", spokeswoman Marie Okabe said.

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