New French-Moroccan Provocation: Algeria Warns Paris
Algeria issued a strong warning to France through its ambassador, who was received at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Algeria considers the French-Moroccan military manoeuvres project, scheduled to be held near the Algerian border next September, a provocative act.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through its Secretary-General, sent a message to the Elysee Palace, drawing the attention of decision-makers to the fact that Algeria views this exercise as a provocative act against Algeria and that “such an act will contribute to fueling the crisis that characterizes Algerian-French relations at the present stage, and raise the tension between the two countries to a new level of danger.”
In a statement published on Thursday, the ministry explained that it received the French ambassador to “draw the attention of the French diplomat to the seriousness of the French-Moroccan military manoeuvres project scheduled to take place next September in Errachidia near the Algerian border, under the name “Chergui 2025, “which carries many connotations.” It also asked the ambassador to provide the necessary clarifications on this subject and called on him to convey Algeria’s position to his peaceful authority in the form in which he was informed.
It seems that the Makhzen is continuing its policy of relying on Algeria’s enemies and provoking it by conducting manoeuvres with the colonial armies near the southwestern border. Zionist soldiers from the criminal Golani Brigade had previously participated in the “African Lion 2023” military manoeuvres in Morocco despite the latter’s cover-up, before the Zionist army revealed the matter, announcing its participation with soldiers on the ground, and said in a statement at the time, “This is the first time that the army has participated effectively in these international manoeuvres on Moroccan soil.”
The announcement of these manoeuvres comes in the context of a severe diplomatic crisis between Algeria and Paris, against the backdrop of France’s recognition of the so-called “Moroccan Western Sahara” in a clear leap over all international resolutions and regulations of United Nations bodies, which consider the issue of Western Sahara a decolonization issue, in light of an unprecedented deterioration in Algerian-French relations that reached the point of withdrawing the Algerian ambassador to France, and amid right-wing demands to suspend the 1968 agreement regulating immigration.
