Libya should know that Ahmed Ouyahia statements are not the State's Positions, Foreign Ministry says

Libyan authorities protest on the statements of the Secretary-General of the National Democratic Rally is not justified, Spokesman of the Algerian Foreign Ministry, Ammar Belani told Echorouk.

“The Libyan government should differentiate between the positions of party chairman, and attitudes of the Algerian state”, he added.

The Libyan Foreign Ministry received on Monday the Algerian ambassador in Tripoli, in order to inquire about the recent statements of the Secretary-General of the RND, Ahmed Ouyahia, which spoke about the Arab Spring.

A statement by the Libyan Foreign Ministry, released on its website, asserted that the Libyan authorities expresses surprise and dismay of the statements ​​by the Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia recently about the Arab spring”.

Previously the Secretary-General of RND, said in a speech at the Hall of Harsha Hassan in Algiers, within the framework of the electoral campaign that, “Algerians should be vigilant, because after the destruction of Iraq, the division of Sudan, the crack down of Libya, and the introduction of Egypt in chaos, now Mali’s turn”.

Member of the national office of RND Chihab Sadik said that the protest of the Libyan government on the statements of Ahmed Ouyahia are “exaggerated” because his words were directed to the Algerians, and not to the Libyans, adding that the speech of the Secretary-General of RND in Algiers during an assembly was directed to ‭Algerians, to warn them of ‭intrigue of ‭Foreign conspiracies ‭that targeted ‭several ‭ ‬Arab countries”. ‬