Algeria Slams Morocco’s ’Dangerous Adventurism’ Amid Israeli Diplomat’s Visit

16 August 2021 – bySylvanus@Bladi · 1 min read

Algeria has reacted to the statements of Yaïr Lapid, the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, in Rabat. On the sidelines of his historic visit to Morocco, the latter said he was concerned "about the role played by" the neighbor to the east "in the region, its rapprochement with Iran and the campaign it has waged against the admission of Israel as an observer member of the African Union."

In the eyes of Algerian diplomacy, this is an "untimely outburst, the true instigator of which is none other than Nasser Bourita in his capacity as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Morocco." According to it, this outburst "reflects a muffled desire to drag his new Middle Eastern ally into a risky adventure directed against Algeria, its values and its positions of principle." "This dangerous adventurism that bets on the worst is a formal denial of the so-called outstretched hand that Moroccan propaganda continues to spread abusively and vainly," stresses the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"The public exercise, of which the Maghreb peoples have all been witnesses, reflects a suicidal flight forward, so much so that the head of Moroccan diplomacy is slyly trying to add to his desperate attempt to distort the decolonization issue that is the Western Sahara conflict a new actor represented by a Middle Eastern military power, which continues to refuse the just and lasting peace with the Palestinian people that the Arab Peace Initiative, to which Algeria is authentically attached, carries," concludes Algerian diplomacy.

Category: Morocco

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Algeria Rabat Iran Israel