Algeria Invites Morocco’s King Mohammed VI to Arab League Summit in Algiers

No doubt about the invitation of King Mohammed VI to the Algiers summit. In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Residing Abroad states that the Algerian Minister of Justice Abderrachid Tabi, emissary of Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, "has handed over" to the Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita in Rabat the "invitation letter" addressed to the sovereign "to attend the proceedings of the Arab summit, scheduled for November 1 and 2, 2022 in Algeria". It remains to be seen whether King Mohammed VI will personally participate in this summit or be represented.

The invitation of the sovereign to the Algiers summit has stirred public opinion due to the rupture by Algeria of its relations with its western neighbor. A few days earlier, the pan-African magazine Jeune Afrique reported that "on the instructions of the highest Moroccan authorities, contacts have been established with several Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain) to inform them that King Mohammed VI will personally attend the 31st Arab summit". Information denied by a Moroccan journalist Mohamed Ouamoussi, close to the decision-making circles.

According to him, only the official Algerian sources represented by the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Royal Court and others can provide such information. This is now a done deal.