Algerian Envoy Slams Moroccan UN Diplomat Over Western Sahara Dispute

Amar Belani replies to Omar Hilale’s remarks. In a statement to APS, he indicated that the Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations has relapsed by making "irresponsible remarks... undermining... the national unity of the Algerian people." He believes that the Moroccan diplomat is disqualified, "forever, from uttering such historical untruths... towards the Algerian people and nation." The unity of the Algerian people has been "forged in the fiery crucible of our glorious war of national liberation," said the Algerian diplomat.

"Naturally, he whose modern State (Morocco, editor’s note) was founded by the Resident General of the French protectorate, Marshal Lyautey (whose equestrian statue is still in Casablanca) cannot understand the patriotic consciousness that fiercely animates the Algerian people in the defense of its national unity and the territorial integrity of its country," he added.

"Rereading" Omar Hilale’s remarks, "one can only think, with gravity, of the fate of the thousands of peaceful Riffians who are the object of fierce repression and whose innocent leaders languish in the medieval dungeons of the kingdom, subjected to the worst abuse and humiliation," continued the Special Envoy, who also paid tribute to "these valiant sons of the Rif people."