The boss of Annahj Addimocrati, Mustapha Brahma, criticized the severance of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Algeria, a decision made at the initiative of Algiers.
The party leader who announced his boycott of the legislative elections in September regretted Algiers’ recent decision to cut diplomatic relations with Morocco, believing that this decision emanates from Algerian decision-makers motivated by “internal” crises.
Speaking during MoroccoLatestNews’s “the road to the 2021 elections” debate, he recalled that Algeria was not at its first attempt at adopting extreme measures. “The state (of relations between Morocco and Algeria) has always been convulsive,” he admitted.
“The fact is that Algeria has denied its involvement in the Atlas Asni attacks in 1994 while Morocco accused it and in return only asked for the establishment of a visa for nationals of the neighboring country. However, Algeria’s reaction was to completely close the borders with Morocco, ”Mustapha Barhma recalled.
The borders between Morocco and Algeria have been closed for 27 years despite calls for reopening made by Morocco since the start of the reign of King Mohammed VI, who advocates a normalization of relations between the two countries and a settlement of disputes. .
“What we see is that despite the many calls for the reopening of borders and the improvement of relations which are indeed historic and which are also based on a common future, and then there are also families and tribes who have been separated by borders, these appeals are refused “by the Algerian party, he said, explaining that this refusal would have” internal causes among Algerian decision-makers “.
He added that it is very likely that “the Algerian soldiers are looking for an external enemy” to maintain power.
Concerning the probability of a rupture which could announce a war between the two countries, Mustapaha Brahmi refused this idea by affirming that a war will not be beneficial for any of the countries nor for their people which he qualified as “brothers”.
Finally for the question of the Sahara which opposes Morocco to Algeria through the Polisario militias created by Algiers, “we (Annahj Addimocrati, editor’s note) what matters to us is that the resolution of the Sahara question is done from democratic manner in good hands, those of the United Nations, and for that there are invitations to sincere and serious dialogue ”, he declared.
On the question of “the self-determination of peoples”, a phrase that often comes up in the mouth of the leader of the party and its relation to the Sahara issue, Brahma considered that self-determination “does not take place only by a referendum. », Noting that this solution was ruled out for good reasons, in particular because of the impossibility of carrying out a population census.
“The United Nations has proposed another alternative which consists of dialogue and direct negotiations” to find a way out, he observed.
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