The Chief of Staff of the National People’s Army (ANP), Lieutenant General Saïd Chanegriha, warned this Tuesday, June 29 in Djanet on the border with Libya against any threat from Algeria.
Algeria “will never accept a threat”, regardless of the “party that utters it or submit to anyone, whatever its power”, warned Chanegriha in a speech delivered to Djanet at the Libyan border, and this on the sidelines of his working and inspection visit to the 4th Military Region.
Said Chanegriha warned these “parties” and “any person pushed by his sick spirit and his thirst for power, against attacking the reputation, security and territorial integrity of Algeria”.
A clear answer to Haftar
The ANP chief of staff does not name these parties, but his warning comes after information published ten days ago on the deployment of Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s men on the border with Algeria.
Eastern Libyan strongman troops who have difficult relations with Algeria have declared a border post as a closed military zone. A belligerent gesture towards Algiers plays a key role in finding a solution to the Libyan crisis.
In his speech reported in a DND press release, Said Chanerg promises a “fierce and” resolute response” against any attempt to attack Algeria.
He affirmed that Algeria, “strong of its valiant army and its revolutionary people and fighting through time, anchored thanks to its glorious history, is nobler so that it is shaken by the insane and the reckless”. The message is clear.
In an interview with Al-Jazeera in early June, the President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune revealed that Algeria was ready to intervene in Libya to prevent Tripoli from falling into the hands of Marshal Haftar’s troops.
“We could not accept that the first North African and African capital should be occupied by mercenaries,” he said.
