Algiers, October 31, 2014 (SPS) - The verbal escalation by Morocco against Algeria, following a recent incident in the border area of two countries, is a "bad strategy of tension," Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra affirmed Thursday in Algiers.
"Algeria’s view (on this incident) has been said and we stick to that. The rest is a bad strategy of the escalation, a bad strategy of tension, headlong rush which will not serve neither the interests of neighborhood nor the interests of any other country," he said at the end of his meeting with Senegalese foreign minister Mankeur Ndiaye.
"I would say simply that Algeria has said its word about this issue and I reiterate this position. Algeria is not responsible for the injuries inflicted to a Moroccan national at the other side of the borders," Lamamra said while answering questions of reporters on the "intense verbal escalation of Moroccan senior authorities" against Algeria.
Things which "are exaggerated, are therefore totally meaningless," the minister said, referring to the "avalanche" of the comments caused by the incident, which are "extremely negative" and “sometimes unwelcome.”
Algeria had already rejected Morocco’s "false" presentation of the reaction of Algerian border guards, provoked by a group of Moroccan smugglers as well as its "abusive" political and media exploitation, past 18 October. (SPS)
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