Marine Le Pen statements do not represent the French position, Algeria FM says
Ramtane Laamamra, Algeria's foreign minister. Photo: archives
Statement of the leader of the extreme right French National Front, Marine Le Pen, on putting an end to the dual nationality does not represent the French Government’s official position, official spokesman to the Foreign Ministry, Abdelaziz Ben Ali Cherif, said.
Algeria Foreign Ministry merely responded to Marine Le Pen’s statement on Algerian immigrants who got dual nationalities in France by saying that her position does not reflect the French official position.
Ben Ali Cherif said in response to the recent statements by the French National Front’s leader on making an end to the double nationality, following the celebrations of Algerians in French streets after the match against Russia, and qualification to the World Cup rond of 16, saying; “French right extremist usually makes such statements, as we know very well that they remain marginal comments, which do not represent the French government’s official position.”
“French extremist-right often retrieved its positions, like those of the father of the leader of the National Front towards the result that was achieved by the Algerian national team in the World Cup in Brazil.”
Foreign Ministry neglecting comments on the recklessness of some of the French last week, when they burned the national flag, and threw it into a water fountain, chanting the French anthem La Marseillaise, as the calm attitude of the Algerian Foreign Ministry about what happened last week in France on insulting the national flag, poses a lot of question marks, especially since Algeria has adopted a stance an ascending firm position in the incident of raiding the Algerian General Consulate in Casablanca, Morocco, last November, and taking down the national flag, and calling the Moroccan ambassador in Algiers, and ask him to clarify the circumstances of the provocative incident, but the Ambassador Abdellah Belkaziz only used the pretext of the “isolated incident.”