The president of Algeria accuses Sánchez of "breaking everything" in an "ethically inadmissible" way but guarantees the gas contracts

• Economy Algeria will sell Italy three times as much gas as Spain from 2023 and makes it its great European partner

and

is complicated

and, although at the moment the gas supply is not in danger, the deterioration is of such magnitude that it will be very difficult to achieve improvements in energy cooperation as Italy has done.

The President of Algeria,

, harshly accuses the President of the Government,

, of "having broken everything" with his lurch in

in an "ethically and historically inadmissible" way, according to statements to the Algerian press at night of Saturday.

"We have cordial relations with

and there has been a rapprochement, as with

. The Prime Minister has broken everything," he says.

However, he distinguishes the figure of the Spanish socialist leader from the country he represents.

"We must distinguish between the Spanish Government and the Spanish State, with which we have very strong ties. We demand the application of international law so that relations with

return to normal."

Along these lines, he assures that the gas supply

contracts already signed with

"Algeria will not give up supplying

of gas, whatever the circumstances," he affirms. Although it does not open the door, as in Italy, to increase supply or sign new contracts beyond the existing ones. Nor does it guarantee price maintenance.

All because of the lurch in the

.

"The Spanish Government has not listened to the opinions of others on the Saharawi issue, despite the fact that they have been raised in the Spanish Parliament and by Spanish public opinion. We will not interfere in the internal affairs of

, but

, as an observer country in the question of

, as well as the United Nations, consider that Spain is the administering power of the territory until a solution to this conflict is found", he maintains.

"The others can be aligned or not, it is their problem. But Spain does not. It does not have the right to hand over a colonized territory to another country. That is the problem with

", he stated.

Therefore, he does not see in the future recomposition of relations with Spain without rectification on the

and "compliance with international law to normalize relations."

In Spain "they cannot ignore their historical responsibilities and they are asked to review what they have done."

Tebboune

, who has maintained good relations with

in the past , warns that he will not relax his position.

"Algeria will not give up either the Sahara or Palestine, two cases of decolonization."

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