Document of Algeria’s Recognition of the Republic of France is Available at the UN, Historian Says

Algeria existed as a superpower before the French colonialism and there is a document at the United Nations that proves the Algerian state’s recognition of the Republic of France, Algerian researcher and historian Mohamed Larbi Zubiri said.

Zubiri added in a lecture at the National Liberation Front party headquarters on Saturday evening that Algeria was, before the French occupation, “a superpower with its political, military and cultural institutions and it imposed its presence in all areas”.

“Algeria was a superpower before the French aggression, contrary to what is being promoted by some voices hostile to our country that France established the Algerian state”, Zubiri asserted in his lecture.

The historian cited what Baba Hassan, the ruler king and Dey of Algiers, had done between 1792 and 1798 when he took the initiative to help France due to the difficult social and economic situation it was going through after its revolution to establish the First Republic.

In this context, Zubiri explained that “the document of Algeria’s recognition of the Republic of France is currently available at the level of the United Nations”.

“How can a country that does not exist historically, as some French politicians and intellectuals claim, recognize the new French regime of the 1st French Republic?”

“The popular resistance that great men fought to confront the French occupation confirms the Algerian people’s adherence to their land, freedom, identity and culture”.