In Tunisia, it was the strengthening of ties that took place this Monday, April 22, with a trilateral meeting between Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed and the President of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed Younes Al-Manfi . At the invitation of the Tunisian president, this summit took place in Tunis.
2 mins
With our correspondent in Tunis, Lilia Blaise
This is the second invitation of its kind after a meeting held on the occasion of the forum of presidents and gas producing countries organized by Algeria in March. This Monday, at the end of the meeting, the Tunisian Minister of Foreign Affairs read a press release listing measures to strengthen this new Maghreb bloc.
Thus, it was decided that joint working groups will be created to coordinate efforts on the security of common borders in the face of irregular migration and the establishment of major joint investment projects on cereal production as well as desalination. of sea water in the face of the climatic challenges facing the three countries. There was no shock announcement but rather the desire to display a North African bloc united around various common issues.
Regional meetings
On the geopolitical level for Algeria, it is also a question of resuming a form of regional foundation, according to researcher Raouf Farrah, because of the instability in Sahel and the crisis in Libya. This follows its announcement last February of the creation of five free zones with Mali,MauritaniaTHE Niger, Tunisia and Libya.
More cooperation, more political and economic exchanges are the announced slogans, but it is too much to speak of a desire to torpedo, with this front, the Union of Maghreb Arab, according to political scientist Hasni Abidi.
The economic and political organization with similar ambitions and of which these three countries, as well as Morocco and Mauritania, are part, has been in a state of stagnation for several decades.
Read alsoAlgiers and Tunis on the same wavelength on Libya