Algeria has not maintained diplomatic relations with Morocco since Wednesday, August 25. The announcement of the rupture was made Tuesday, August 24 by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the national community abroad Ramtane Lamamra.
More than two weeks later, the Algerian diplomat ruled out any return to normal with the neighbor to the West. He sent a clear message to the Arab countries.
“It is a sovereign decision, final and irreversible”, ruled Ramtane Lamamra, yesterday Thursday, on the sidelines of the meeting of Arab foreign ministers and during his consultative meetings which preceded the said meeting.
Through Lamamra, Algeria expressed its opposition to the programming of the issue of the severance of relations with Morocco on the agenda of the ministerial meeting.
“The question of severing diplomatic relations with Morocco is not and will not be on the agenda of the ministerial meeting, and that the decision to sever diplomatic relations will not be discussed. or a deliberation. It is a sovereign, final and irreversible decision,” he said, according to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs published this Friday, September 10.
Continuing, Ramtane Lamamra recalled that the reasons which pushed Algeria to sever its diplomatic relations with Morocco, which “intervened because of serious and persistent violations by Morocco of the fundamental obligations which govern relations between the two countries, and in the context of its numerous, repeated and documented attacks”. Lamamra accused Morocco of being responsible for the “stalemate” in the relations between the two countries.
Lamamra says no to mediation
The head of Algerian diplomacy once again accused Morocco of trying to strike at the national unity of Algeria by publicly supporting an Algerian separatist movement which is the Movement for the Self-Determination of Kabylia. (MAK). He also reproached him for having allowed “the historic enemy” which is Israel to make “hostile declarations” against Algeria from its territory.
Thursday, August 12, the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Yaïr Lapid expressed from Rabat the “concerns” of his country and Morocco about the “role played by Algeria in the region, its rapprochement with Iran and campaign it waged against the admission of Israel as an observer member of the African Union”.
“All this happened in broad daylight, and what is Morocco preparing in secret?” Lamamra asked.
Also on the sidelines of this meeting of Arab League ministers, Ramtane Lamamra said no to any mediation initiative aimed at restoring relations between Algeria and Morocco.
“Thinking about any initiative, whatever its nature, is reductive and superficial. It does not take into account, rather it ignores the full responsibility of Morocco in the chronic deterioration of bilateral relations and obscures the extent of the political and moral damage committed by Moroccan circles,” Lamamra argued.
He recalled that Algeria has “long favored the values of brotherhood, good neighborliness, non-interference in internal affairs “and” observed restraint in the face of repeated Moroccan hostilities”.
As for the next Arab summit, the Minister of Foreign Affairs stressed that it is a “right” and a “duty” for Algeria to host it.
“A right in accordance with the provisions stipulated in the Charter of the League and its internal regulations and previous practices related to the participation of Member States. It is a duty because Algeria will not abandon its responsibility to respond to the legitimate aspirations of the Arab peoples, who consider Algeria under the leadership of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune as a source of inspiration to restore and strengthen solidarity and activate common Arab action, especially in the light of current regional and international conditions,” he said.
