Algeria Rejects Arab Mediation in Diplomatic Rift with Morocco

"The issue of the severance of diplomatic relations with Morocco is not and will not be on the agenda of the ministerial meeting, and the decision to break off diplomatic relations will not be the subject of discussion or deliberation. It is a sovereign, final and irreversible decision," said the head of Algerian diplomacy on the sidelines of the meeting of Arab foreign ministers and during consultative meetings in the run-up to this meeting.

In other words, Algeria refuses any Arab mediation. Saudi Arabia is one of the countries that tried to play a mediating role between Rabat and Algiers in order to thaw the diplomatic crisis between the two countries. The day after Algeria announced the severance of its diplomatic relations with Morocco, the Saudi Foreign Minister, Faisal bin Farhan, had announced that he had spoken by telephone with his Algerian and Moroccan counterparts.

Mauritania has also embarked on the same dynamic. The Mauritanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, had assured that his country "is working serenely" to ease tensions between Algeria and Morocco.