Diplomat Abdelaziz Rehabi to Echorouk: “Military Intervention Scary because the Northern Mali is the Southern Algeria”
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Diplomat and Former Minister of Communication, Abdel-Aziz Rahabi, described the option of military intervention in Northern Mali a “military adventure, because Northern Mali is Southern Algeria,” and warned of the serious repercussions on the stability of the Sahel and nearby states.
Rahabi said in phone contact with Echorouk that, “a military solution also means opening a new front on our southern borders, after we lived on the impact of Libya and Tunisia unrest. A military solution in Mali is scary for Algeria, because it is the option of powerful countries far from the region. Any military operation in the Azawad region would push tens of thousands of refugees to our southern borders, and more of the weapons’ flow” .
“Power in these countries is centralized and do not pay attention to the ethnic and regional specificities, and even considered this privacy as a threat to the authority, this is why it is working to thwart the demands of the population of northern Mali, in order not to reach their countries “.
The former Algerian Ambassador to Spain said; “Algeria is implicated in a global struggle, which does not concern it. The problem in the Sahel is international terrorism, and Algeria have a successful experience in fighting the phenomenon and it has its potential; the United States is looking for a distinctive role for Algeria in the region, and France fears of the erosion of the power of its allies’ regimes in the region “ .
