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Join on Telegram Rabat – Algerian Foreign Affairs Minister Ramtane Lamamra has claimed that his country does not wish to start a war with Morocco.
The statement followed continuous threats from Algeria after the Algerian accused Morocco in August 2021 of involvement in the wildfires in Kabylie region.
The Algerian government also severed relations with Morocco, citing unproven “evidence” of a Morocco-led attempt to destabilize Algeria and undermine Algerian interests.
In an interview with France24 and RFI, Lamamra echoed the same hostile and anti-Moroccan rhetoric, claiming that v interfering in its domestic affairs.
After Morocco and Israel re-established diplomatic ties in December 2020, the Algerian government repeatedly attacked the two countries for supposedly plotting to destabilize Algeria.
In addition to resortin to Algiers’ anti-Semitic rhetoric to attack the diplomatic rapprochment between Israel and Morocco, Lamamra also reiterated his country’s hostile position against Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara.
After the US recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara, Lamamra said Algeria regrets the “recognition by former US President Donald Trump for its proclamation, recognition Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara “but relativizes the decision of the Biden administration not to reconsider this position.”
The Algerian regime, which shelters, finances, arms, and trains the separatist Polisario Front, has been lobbying the US administration to review its pro-Morocco position on the Sahara conflict.
In recent weeks, however, Washington has consistently expressed its support of Morocco’s Autonomy Plan, describing the Moroccan proposal as a credible and serious step toward a lasting solution to the conflict.
Despite being a main party to the Sahara conflict, the Algerian government refuses to shoulder responsibility, referring to itself as an “observer” party.
But such a stance is in defiance of the UN Security Council’s resolutions on the conflict, which have repeatedly emphasized that all four parties to the conflict — Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, and the Polisario Front — should fully engage in the UN-led political process to find a mutually acceptable solution to the decades-long dispute.
