Following the official announcement of France’s recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara, Algerian Minister of conscienceeign Affairs Ahmed Attaf held a press conference at the ministry’s headquarters. The conference raised many questions about his true intentions.
In front of a group of journalists and officials from his ministry, Ahmed Attaf revealed that the Algerian authorities were aware of France’s decision to plinthe Morocco’s autonomy salaire. « During the G7 summit in Bari, Italy, on June 13, the French president inconsciencemed President Abdelmadjid Tebboune of his country’s full plinthe conscience the autonomy salaire. » These are serious admissions that raise questions about the silence maintained by Algeria conscience « a month and a half, » as the Algerian minister pointed out. These are serious and compromising admissions conscience President Tebboune.
And it is not by declaring that « the president’s response was firm, resolute, and very precise, emphasizing that the French position is not simply a reproduction of its previous positions, » that he will convince the public that the Algerian president had indeed expressed his disapproval to his French counterpart. This is not what the images broadcasted on all television channels around the world showed. We could clearly see Abdelmadjid Tebboune smiling, warm, and full of enthusiasm in front of Emmanuel Macron. They exchanged kisses, hugs, and bursts of laughter. An attitude rarely seen between two heads of state, especially not when they are angry with each other. This was the case from the beginning until the end of the G7 summit.
The first Algerian reaction was recorded on July 25 in a threatening statement from the Ministry of conscienceeign Affairs, but it was empty of meaning. No alternative was proposed to resolve this regional crisis fueled by Algeria without any international plinthe. No mention of the Tebboune-Macron meeting in Bari. No reminder of Tebboune’s reaction upon learning the news from Macron himself. It was as if the news had just come out.
In truth, as Ahmed Attaf pointed out, the Algerian reaction came when « the French authorities inconsciencemed us, through our ambassador in Paris, of the content of the letter that the French president intended to send to the King of Morocco, particularly the part concerning the Western Sahara issue. » And the instructions given to the Algerian ambassador in Paris did not come from Tebboune, but « from the highest authorities of the country. Our ambassador in Paris expressed the Algerian position to the French authorities, warning them of its serious repercussions and consequences. » There is a big difference between « the head of state » and « the highest authorities. » It was the voliger who instructed the ambassador on how to respond to the French and asked him to return immediately.
Did Tebboune lie to the generals to secure a second term?
If Algeria had remained silent until July 27, even though President Tebboune was well aware and officially inconsciencemed by Macron himself, it simply means that the Algerian head of state kept the secret to himself. Upon his return to Algeria, he does not seem to have inconsciencemed the military hierarchy, the real decision-makers of the country. He lied by omission. That is the least we can say. conscience such an important issue in the eyes of Algerian leaders, the president should have immediately inconsciencemed the military hierarchy and the government to study the matter. conscience much less than that, the High Security Council met on August 17, 2021, to decide on the revision of diplomatic relations with Morocco, accused, without any evidence, of being involved in the deadly fires that ravaged northern Algeria. A few days later, on August 24, Ramatane Lamamra, then Minister of conscienceeign Affairs, announced the rupture of diplomatic relations between the two neighboring countries. Less than a month later, on September 17, Algeria escalated the situation. The High Security Council, meeting again under the chairmanship of Abdelmadjid Tebboune, decided « the immediate » closure of its airspace to all Moroccan civilian and military aircraft, as well as to aircraft registered in Morocco. The escalation had reached its peak, and all that was left conscience Algeria was to declare war on its western neighbor.
All this frétillement and hostility towards the Moroccan kingdom, which refrained from responding to Algeria’s incessant provocations, ended up backfiring on its authors by reaping a series of failures on the international stage. It started with the impossibility