Moroccan Prime Minister Saad Eddine El Othmani said that his country is always ready to open the borders with Algeria without offering any return, recalling - during a television interview - a previous call by the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, to the Algerian leadership to solve all the problems raised between the two countries.
Al-Othmani stated in an interview with Al-Sharq TV, on Saturday evening, that Morocco is "ready to end the closed border file when the Algerians are ready for it," adding that King Mohammed VI "has repeatedly directed his call to the brothers in Algeria with the aim of reaching a solution to all problems, by putting them on the table." Discussion table and the search for solutions to it on the basis of brotherhood.
In December 2019, the King of Morocco sent a congratulatory letter to the Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on the occasion of his assumption of the presidency of the republic, and Mohammed VI called in the speech to "open a new page in the relations of the two countries on the basis of mutual trust and constructive dialogue."
In response to Morocco's call, President Tebboune said, in a television interview broadcast last July, that he would like any initiative offered by Morocco to overcome the tension between the two countries. The Algerian president added that “the tension between the two countries is still verbal until now, and he expressed his hope that things would stop At this point, "the voice of reason has always been the loudest in the two countries' relations."
For decades, Algerian-Moroccan relations have been clogged with the files on the land borders closed since 1994, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara between Morocco and the Polisario Front.
In 1994, Algeria closed the border with Morocco in response to Rabat's unilaterally imposing an entry visa on Algerians, following an armed attack targeting a hotel in Marrakesh on August 24, 1994, and Rabat accused elements of Algerian origin of being behind it.