Morocco's Hostile Actions: Algeria Hardens its Response

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Agissements du Maroc : l’Algérie durcit sa riposte

Nouveau cran dans la riposte de l’Algérie aux « provocations » et « actes hostiles » du Maroc. L’Algérie a décidé de fermer espace aérien aux avions marocains.

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Morocco's Hostile Actions: Algeria hardens its response
Policy By: Redaction Sep 22, 2021 at 9:12 PM

New guts in Algeria’s response to Morocco’s “provocations” and “hostile acts”. The two countries have not maintained diplomatic relations since August 24, Algiers having decided to sever them after a series of "hostile acts" by its neighbor to the west.

Six days earlier, the High Security Council (HCS) had announced "the review" of relations with the kingdom.

From mid-July, Moroccan diplomacy and services distinguished themselves by acts in which Algeria could not be silent.

Morocco's representative to the UN Omar Hilale openly called for the partition of Algeria by supporting Kabylia's “self-determination”, the Israeli Foreign Minister made accusations and threats to the regard to Algeria from Moroccan territory and the world press simultaneously revealed Morocco's involvement in a vast espionage operation mainly targeting Algeria, through the Israeli software Pegasus.

Morocco is trying, notably through the "conciliatory" speeches of King Mohamed VI, to blame Algeria for the deterioration of relations between the two countries, but it is betrayed each time by the acts of its diplomats.

Its ambassador to the UN Omar Hilale reoffended on Kabylia at the end of August and this week, it was his representative in Geneva who unearthed the old baseless accusation of the presence of elements of Lebanese Hezbollah in the Sahrawi refugee camps of Tindouf, in the southwest of Algeria.

An accusation that Amar Belani, special envoy in charge of the question of Western Sahara and the Maghreb countries, described as a "grotesque fable".

The HCS evokes the continuation of Moroccan "provocations"
This Wednesday, September 22, the High Security Council met again under the chairmanship of the Head of State Abdelmadjid Tebboune with on the menu this persistence of Morocco in the path of provocation.

The HCS decided to respond by closing Algerian airspace to Moroccan civil and military planes as well as planes registered in Morocco.

“The meeting was devoted to developments in the situation at the borders with the Kingdom of Morocco. Given the persistence of provocations and hostile acts on the Moroccan side, the Council decided to immediately close Algerian airspace to all Moroccan civil and military aircraft, as well as to those bearing a Moroccan registration, from 'today', indicates a press release from the Presidency of the Republic made public at the end of the day. This is a huge blow to Morocco, whose planes are crossing Algerian airspace to reach the Middle East.

On the eve of this decision, Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra spoke in an interview with American media CNN on the severance of relations with Morocco.

“Algeria has been extraordinarily patient in the face of all the acts Morocco has committed against its sovereignty and unity. This is why we believe that such a decision (the breakdown of relations) sent the appropriate message to the government of Morocco to indicate to them that we could not afford to accept more the behavior of this neighboring country ”, he added. Lamamra said.

The Algerian foreign minister added that such a situation "could not last any longer without causing damage" and "risked leading the two countries down an undesirable path".