Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri spoke with his Algerian and Moroccan counterparts about the crisis in Algerian-Rabat relations.
According to IRNA, in two separate telephone conversations with the foreign ministers of Algeria and Morocco, Rumtan al-Amara and Nasser Burita, the Egyptian foreign minister discussed ways to resolve the crisis in relations between Algeria and Rabat.
Egyptian media quoted Ahmed Hafez, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as saying that in two phone calls, Shukri discussed recent developments in Algerian-Moroccan relations and ways to resolve the two countries’ differences. .
In talks with his Algerian and Moroccan counterparts, the Egyptian Foreign Minister stressed the need for the two countries to work together to advance political and dialogue solutions aimed at resolving the two countries’ issues.
Algeria’s foreign minister announced last Tuesday that Algeria’s diplomatic relations with Rabat would be severed today after Morocco was implicated in recent fires.
Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtan al-Amira announced that the country would continue its efforts in the African Union to block the granting of observer membership to Israel.
The Algerian presidency on August 28 accused two terrorist groups backed by the Maghreb and the Zionist regime of being involved in recent fires in the country.
A statement from the Algerian presidency said police had arrested 22 people on suspicion of involvement in the fires, with Rashad and al-Muk being the main culprits.
Morocco and Algeria are two neighboring countries that share more than 1,700 kilometers of common land border and great cultural proximity, but their relations have not always been warm, but sometimes tense, and a kind of cold war is going on between the two countries.
The Morocco gained independence in 1956 and Algeria in 1962, but relations between the two countries have been tense ever since. In 1976, their diplomatic relations were severed for 12 years, and it was not until 1988 that they were established.
