Diplomatic relations between France and Algeria have never been worse since 1962. France, on Tuesday, April 15, reminded its Ambassador in Algiers for consultations and ordered the expulsion of 12 Algerian diplomats, in response to a similar measure taken by Algeria the previous day against 12 Embassy officials who ordered to leave the Algerian territory.
The expulsions series votes from the French police sentence of an employee of the Algeria Consulate in a suburb of Paris on April 11, as part of an investment in kidnapping or an antigime influencer. These events are the last episode in a highly degraded diplomatic relationship between France and Algeria as the summer of 2024, focused on three key themes.
The problem of the West Sahara
On July 30, 2024, he marked the beginning of recent tensions between France and Algeria. In a letter addressed to the King of Morocco Mohammed VI, French president Emmanuel Macron said that “the present and future of Western Sahara [were] Part of Moroccan sovereignty. “
Without explicitly recognizing the “Moroccan” of the territory, which is occupied by 80% by Morocco, the French president considered that the autonomy plan presented by the kingdom to the United Nations in 2007 in 2007 to affirm his sovereignty over the West Sahara was the “only basis to achieve a single political solution and negotiated in the political solution of the units of the United States.” Except that the UN H of the Law of the legs for a self -determination referendum since 1991 and for the signing of a high fire that has not yet materialized.
The pro-mortal posture of France had no precedents. Until then, Paris had considered that this plan is a “serious and credible discussion basis” and had always refrained from explicitly mentioning “Moroccan proud” in the matter. The change of position was perceived as an affront in Algeria, which supports the Sahrawi Pro-Independencia movement, the Polisario front, which claims the territory. “This step, that no previous French government had tasks, the current government did very lightly and great care, without lucidly measuring all possible consequences,” said Algerian foreign ministy in a statement. Then, Algiers decided to “retire” his ambassador parked in Paris.
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