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2012-01-04
Algeria to pursue 'reconciliation' with Morocco
Algeria will continue efforts to "normalise" relations with Morocco, AtlasInfo quoted Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci as saying on Tuesday (January 3rd). Speaking on Algerian national radio, Medelci said that the closure of the border between Algeria and Morocco "has never been a final decision".
"Reconciliation with Morocco will be consolidated with the new Moroccan government," the Algerian minister said.
Medelci also noted that Arab Maghreb Union (UMA) foreign ministers would meet next month in Morocco. "The changes that have occurred in Tunisia, Libya and other Arab countries can only encourage us to move faster in building the UMA," Medelci said.
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siad 2012-2-25
The Tunisian president, who is new to the head of the country, has been going all out and has pulled a rabbit out of his hat with the “Arab Maghreb Union”, but he has forgotten all of the evil that Algeria has suffered from the Kingdom’s wanderings and tribulations. Morocco does not recognise the borders inherited from colonialism; the murder of our young people; the destruction felt by our farmers; the Makhzen’s harmful cell in Algeria; the fact that Algerians who had been living in Morocco for decades were stripped of their goods, which they earned from the sweat of their brow, and have no been reimbursed at all to this day; the contraband of all sorts, including drugs; and the accusations against Algeria for the bombing in Marrakech at a time when my country was going through a very difficult period. As such, the Makhzen poured fuel on the fire. So, is this new Tunisian president able to balance the aggressiveness, the discontent, the frustration, the anger and the indignation of the Algerian men and women while he is only looking out for the interests of his own country? I say ,“No! No! And no!” to opening the border with Morocco, which must offer its apologies for the moral evils the Algerians have been subjected too and, secondly, pay for the damages they were subjected to. And, thirdly, is Morocco able to properly ensure the protection of the Algerian-Moroccan border???
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badre 2012-1-5
We hope relations between Morocco and Algeria will improve to the level of union because they are the backbone of the Arab Maghreb.
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