Relations between Algeria and Mali are going through a period of turbulence. The day after the summoning of its ambassador to Bamako by the Malian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Algeria responded this Thursday with a reciprocal measure. a>
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and the National Community Abroad, Ahmed Attaf, summoned the Ambassador of Mali to Algeria Mahamane Amadou Maiga, “about the latest developments in the situation in this country”, his department indicated in a statement.
The head of Algerian diplomacy “strongly” reminded the Mali ambassador that “all of Algeria’s historic contributions to the promotion of peace, security, and stability in Mali” have “always been based on unshakable “three fundamental principles”.
What Ahmed Attaf said to the Mali ambassador in Algiers
The first principle is “Algeria’s attachment to the sovereignty of Mali, its national unity and its territorial integrity. »
The second principle is Algeria’s “deep conviction that only peaceful means can guarantee peace, security, and stability in the Republic of Mali in a permanent and lasting manner. »
“As a result of the first two principles, national reconciliation, and not recurring divisions and ruptures between brothers, remains the best way that would allow the State of Mali to engage in a global and inclusive path for its entire people, without any discrimination, preference or exclusion,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs added.
For Algerian diplomacy, national reconciliation is the path that “ultimately ensures the consolidation of sovereignty, national unity and territorial integrity of the Republic of Mali.”
The Algerian ambassador in Bamako was summoned on Wednesday, December 20 by the Malian Minister of Foreign Affairs the day after the visit to Algiers of the imam of the Kountia brotherhood of Mali, Mahmoud Dicko.
