Congratulations Between Algiers and Rabat Are Continuing Despite Tension On Several Fronts

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, confirmed, on Saturday, his eagerness to work with the King of Morocco to tighten the relationships of brotherhood between the two peoples, which coincides with the cold relationships between the two countries, because of the Western Sahara issue, and Rabat’s quest to join the African Union on the dead body of the Sahraoui Republic.

Bouteflika’s letter to the Moroccan King came on the occasion of the King and People’s Revolution and the Youth Day, and it read: ” I take this good opportunity to renew our permanent commitment and determination to work hard with Your Majesty to tighten the ties of brotherhood and solidarity of our two brotherly countries, to respond to the aspirations for progress and prosperity.”

This letter came hours before the speech of the Moroccan king, on the Revolution Day, to indicate the expectations that he will not deviate from the tradition of the Moroccan regime, through distributing charges to Algeria for its support of independence for Western Sahara, or what he calls the territorial integrity of the Kingdom.

President Bouteflika’s letter did not come out of the diplomatic traditions in the national events between the two countries, as the two countries’ leaders exchanged congratulations and confirm the upgrading of relationships that notice a continuous tension since decades.

Algiers and Rabat noticed, in the recent weeks, a cold war that is entitled “African Union”, after the king of Morocco announced, in a letter for the recent Kigali summit, his country’s determination to return to the body that it left in 1984 (OAU) because Western Sahara joined it as a full member.