Morocco Accuses Algeria of Diplomatic Breaches Ahead of Arab Summit

Present in Algeria to participate with his Arab League counterparts in the preparatory meeting of the Arab summit, Bourita reacted to the actions of his counterpart Ramtane Lamamra, who chaired the meeting in his capacity as Foreign Minister of the host country. Bourita denounced a breach of diplomacy and protocol during his reception. No Algerian official welcomed the Moroccan delegation, this role being left to the Mauritanian Foreign Minister.

Furthermore, the Moroccan Foreign Minister made it known that at the beginning of the proceedings, the Algerian Minister categorically opposed the Moroccan proposal to include on the summit agenda the Iranian interference in the Maghreb affairs and the delivery of Iranian drones to the Polisario. The Algerian Minister refused to submit the Moroccan proposal to a vote. This is contrary to all the practices of preparing summits of heads of state.

In the wake, Algeria reacted, denouncing in turn an attempt to disrupt the Arab summit it is organizing. These allegations are the "product of the imagination of those who propagated them. They have no basis," says an Algerian diplomatic source quoted by TSA, indicating that Nasser Bourita and his delegation were received in the same way as the other Arab delegations.

And to add that these "malicious" and "misleading" Moroccan complaints have become frequent and whose purpose is no longer a secret to anyone, as well as attempts to "call into question the high professionalism of the Algerian competencies in international bodies," cannot in "any way disrupt the work of the Algiers summit, whose signs of success are beginning to worry certain parties who are seeking, as usual, to thwart any effort."