The Algerian Foreign Ministry has confirmed that it rejected “the categorical refusal to tackle it with leusing, warnings and threats”, after French Prime Minister François Bayro threatened to cancel all “bilateral agreements” on immigration issues in a month or 6 weeks.
The Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said – in a statement today, Thursday, that “Algeria categorically rejects its address to the leusing, warnings and threats, because it will guarantee that the application of reciprocity strictly and immediately on all restrictions imposed on the movement between Algeria and France, without excluding any other measure that national interests may require approval.”
French government spokesperson Sophie Barima said that Algeria’s request to reconsider “all agreements” concerned immigration “the prolonged hand” and the attempt to restore “calm” of relations between the two countries.
“We explore all the possibilities of trying to achieve the (…) silent relationships with Algeria,” added Brima in radio statements.
The French speech of the 1968 agreement which facilitates the conditions of residence, mobility and work for the Algerians, in the context of the growing tensions fed by an attack which led to the murder of a person and the injury of 6 other people in the Eastern Milose.
The French authorities said that the bomber was an Algerian attack on him to leave the French territories, but it was not implemented due to the repeated refusal of the Algerian authorities to restore it.
The French Prime Minister said that a request had been submitted to the Algerian authorities to restore his citizen “14 times”, and gave the Algerian government a period ranging from 4 to 6 weeks to consider “an urgent list for people who must be able to return to their country”.
Growing tension
In a new indication of the climbing of tension between Algeria and France, The Algerian National Assembly – The second chamber of Parliament – announced “the immediate suspension of its relations” with the French Senate, to protest against the visit he made earlier this week, its president, Gerard Larsheh, in Western Sahara.
In turn, the National People’s Assembly (the first chamber of Parliament) strongly condemned the visit of Larcé, describing the visit as “a dangerous slide from the extreme right which has become dominant the French political scene, and a flagrant violation of international law and relevant decisions of the United Nations”.
Algerian-French relations have attended an unprecedented tension since last summer, and Algeria withdrew its Paris ambassador in the context of the latter’s adoption from the Moroccan autonomy proposal to resolve the question of Western Sahara.
And the tension increased more after the arrest of the Algerian authorities last November, the Algerian writer who holds French citizenship Boualam Sakasal, and an Algerian court accused of conflicts under article 87 of the Algerian penal code, linked to “prejudice to national unit and its threat”.
The crisis between the two countries was also exacerbated after the French authorities arrested two Algerian influential influencers accused by Paris to call for violence on French and Algerian territory through videos on the “Tik Talk” application.