Algiers, 9 Nov 2015 (SPS) - The inappropriate remarks King of Morocco recently made about Algeria, because of its unconditional support to the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination, "sound like gambling on the worst," declared Sunday in Algiers, Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ramtane Lamamra.
"Those remarks you are echoing sound like gambling on the worst," Lamamra said while answering a question on Algeria’s position concerning Moroccan King’s remarks during a news conference he held with Colombian counterpart Maria Angela Holguin, on working visit to Algeria.
"If we have well understood, there will be more disunity, fratricidal discord and rearguard action than we have seen during the past 40 years, while the world is moving forward and expresses more attachment to safe haven and principles supported all over the world like peoples’ self-determination," he added.
"The mystification which occurred on 6 November 1975 resulted in that the collective destiny of the Maghreb peoples was taken hostage by the territorial expansionism for 4 decades," he underlined.
Lamamra stressed that Algeria "wants resolutely to be an exporter of peace, security and stability in its neighborhood, notably when it concerns Western Sahara question."
"In compliance with our Constitution that compels us to peacefully settle the international disputes and contribute to the peace and security, and the achievement of UN objectives, we don’t want to inflame the situation," the minister stressed.
"Fortunately,” he continued, “the international legality spoke three or four days ago, through United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon likewise the International Court of Justice did in its advisory opinion, forty years ago," he recalled.
"These two main bodies of the United Nations (the Secretary General and the International Court of Justice) alongside with the UN General Assembly and the Security Council said that Algeria’s position of principle in this matter, namely Western Sahara people right to self-determination is essential, inalienable and imprescriptible," added the Minister of State.
For Lamamra, "repeating the clichés and the unfortunate stereotypes regarding the Algerian position will not tarnish this position of principle, the same of the entire international community."
"Algeria categorically rejects these unfortunate stereotypes and clichés," he concluded. (SPS)
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