Algeria's stance on the recent military coup in Mauritania is in keeping with the principles of the democratic path and the establishment of constitutional institutions by people. As a result, President Bouteflika refused on Wednesday to receive an envoy of the Mauritanian coup leaders as an official position which reflects Algeria’s refusal to deal with non-elected bodies, or recognising them as an alternative or other representative of the authority and governance in a country which has special diplomatic relations with Algeria.

• President Abdelaziz bouteflika commissioned the minister delegate in charge of Maghrebian and African affairs, Abdelkader Messahel, to receive “the insurrectionists’ representative” in Mauritania, and by Foreign Affairs minister, Mourad Medelsi, who reaffirmed to his interlocutor that Algeria refuses all coups which are against the will of peoples.
•  If Algeria is against the Mauritanian  military coup designed to seize power by force, Morocco chose swimming against the tide.  the Moroccan king has dispatched recently his chief of intelligence, to meet with the “ Mauritanian commander of insurrectionists”, which is considered by observers “ recognition of new authority”, according to diplomatic channels and self-planned Moroccan strategy to invest in Mauritania, at a time when subservient human rights organizations in Morocco called for the toppling of Mauritanian president, Mohamed Echikh Oueld Abdellah,
• Observers include “insurrectionists’ commander” General Ould Abdelaziz, among the list of the
• Moroccan regime “friends”, given that he is a graduate officer from the Military Academy of Meknes, which explains “convergence” or “alliance” between the “New military regime” in Nouakchott and  the “Mekhzen