Le Maroc et Israël expriment leurs « inquiétudes » au sujet de l’Algérie
L’Algérie est pour la première fois évoquée publiquement par un très haut responsable israélien comme une source d’« inquiétude » pour son pays.
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Algeria is for the first time mentioned publicly by a very senior Israeli official as a source of "concern" for his country.
Israeli Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs Yaïr Lapid pays historic visit to Morocco eight months after signing of the Abrahamic Accords, providing for the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two countries and the recognition by the United States of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara.
The two sides agreed during the visit to open respective embassies. In the meantime, an Israeli liaison office is inaugurated in Rabat.
Coming in a context of tension between Algeria and Morocco and Algeria's offensive to block the admission of Israel as an observer member of the African Union, the visit provided an opportunity to attack head-on to Algeria.
Thursday, at the end of his visit to Morocco, Yaïr Lapid told the press to have raised with his Moroccan counterpart their "concerns about the role played by Algeria in the region, its rapprochement with Iran and the campaign that it led against the admission of Israel as an observer member of the African Union ”.
These serious remarks are made on Moroccan soil two weeks after the king of Morocco's “outstretched hand” to the Algerian president for the rapprochement of the opening of the border between the two countries.
In his speech on the occasion of the feast of the throne, on July 31, Mohamed VI proposed to "work in concert" with Algeria and "without conditions" for the establishment of bilateral relations based on trust, dialogue and good neighborliness.
Tensions between Algeria and Morocco
Algeria's response came through the official review of the ANP which recalled Morocco's repeated attacks against Algeria, then through the voice of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune who criticized Morocco for to have done nothing after a serious slippage in its diplomacy.
"A Moroccan diplomat made serious statements, following which we summoned our ambassador to Rabat for consultation, and advised to go further, but no reaction came from Morocco", replied Mr. Tebboune on the 8th. August during a meeting with the press.
On July 14, Morocco's representative to the United Nations seriously attacked the integrity of Algerian territory by distributing a note to representatives of member countries of the Non-Aligned movement, calling for the self-determination of the "valiant Kabyle people".
Two days later, the world press disclosed a resounding espionage scandal involving Morocco. The country's services have used Israeli software called Pegasus to spy on thousands of the phones of opponents, critical journalists and foreign officials. With 6,000 targeted phones, some of which belong to senior military and political officials, Algeria is the country most affected by this vast espionage operation.
Regarding the admission of Israel to the African Union as an observer member, the Algerian embassy in Addis Ababa signed on August 3 with six other foreign diplomatic representations (Egypt, Tunisia, Comoros Islands, Djibouti, Libya and Mauritania) a note disapproving of the decision of the President of the AU Commission, Moussa Fati.
On August 7, the latter granted their request to put the issue on the agenda of the next session of the Executive Council of the pan-African body.
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