Already complicated, relations between the two countries are experiencing a new escalation after the publication of a press release accusing Algiers of interference and complicity with the terrorists raging in Mali last week in Bamako. If, in Algeria, the executive has not officially reacted, several parliamentarians have stepped up in recent days to denounce these accusations.
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Following the accusations made against theAlgeria by the junta in power in Bamako last week, several figures close to power have spoken in recent days in Algiers to denounce accusations violating all diplomatic norms and threaten to take, this time, ” firm measures » against the Malian Military Council.
MP Abdelkader Bengrina, who chairs the al Bina movement, castigated a “ dangerous transgression of diplomatic norms ” speak Malibefore mentioning his “ unfounded reaction » following the refusal of the Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Attaf, to qualify as “terrorists” the Tuareg separatist movements in northern Mali, signatories of the 2015 Algiers peace agreement, including Bamako withdrew a year ago.
Member of the Assembly’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Mohamed Hani condemned aggression by Algeria and its diplomacy despite the efforts it has made to restore stability to its Malian neighbor. He then estimated that these comments were part of a plan by Mali aimed at destabilizing the region.
Accusations made the day Algiers took over the rotating presidency of the Security Council
Finally, Kamal Khelifati, who sits on the Council of the Nation – the upper house of Parliament – affirmed that the stability of Algeria was closely linked to that of Mali and that Algiers, which fought terrorism alone , has experience that she seeks to pass on to her neighbors.
In his press release of January 1, after denouncing “ the persistence of acts of interference » of Algeria on its territory and accused the latter of supporting the “ terrorist groups » Tuareg who are there, Bamako invited Algiers to stop making Mali « a lever for its international positioning “.
Coincidence or not, the document was published the day Algeria took over the rotating presidency of the Security Council of theUN for a month by declaring that he wanted to make the fight against terrorism in Africa one of his priorities.
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