Comments by a Moroccan official on Kabylia anger Algeria
Kabylie village.
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Algiers has decided to recall its ambassador to Rabat for consultation.
While the two countries are at loggerheads on the question of Western Sahara, Algeria has not at all appreciated an exit of the Moroccan ambassador to the United Nations on the right to self-determination of the Kabyle people.
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It was during a virtual meeting of non-aligned countries that took place in New York on July 13 and 14, that Omar Hilale, the Moroccan ambassador to the UN, submitted to member countries a note in which he believes that the Kabyle people in Algeria deserve “
more than any other to fully enjoy their right to self-determination
”.
A statement that was not at all to the taste of the Algerian power.
Algeria is opposed to any desire for independence in Kabylia.
It also classified the Movement for Self-Determination in Kabylia (MAK) as a “terrorist organization” last May.
Kabylia, located in the north of the country and predominantly Amazigh, constitutes a red line for Algiers, as is Western Sahara for Morocco.
This is the first time that a Moroccan diplomat has officially expressed a position of support for the separatism of Kabylia in reaction to the support given by Algiers to the Sahrawi separatists.
A response also, according to Rabat,
to the statements of Ramtane Lamamra
, Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, on Western Sahara, during this meeting of non-aligned countries devoted to the health situation.
Ramtane Lamamra called for supporting the right to self-determination of the Saharawi people and quickly appointing a new special envoy for this conflict.
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