Sep. 5 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, met this Monday with the Algerian President, Abdelmajid Tebune, in the presidential palace, popularly known as El Muradia, to strengthen cooperation with Algeria and try to iron out any rough edges in the face of the challenges in the region. .
“In Algiers to strengthen cooperation with the European Union. Regional stability and security, energy, trade and prosperity are our common goals,” Michel said on his official Twitter profile.
Michel, who has attended to pay his respects at the Martyrs’ Monument, which commemorates Algeria’s War of Independence from France, has also met with the Algerian Foreign Minister, Ramtane Lamamra, according to the state news agency. PHC.
As part of his short visit to the country, the President of the European Council visited the Mujahideen National Museum, which exhibits weapons, documents and war objects that belonged to the Algerian fighters who fought against French colonization until the year 1962.
Since the rupture between Algeria and Spain due to their change of position on Western Sahara, the member states of the European Union, including Germany, France and Italy, have tried to maintain contact with Algerian diplomacy.
Algeria’s rupture with the Treaty of Friendship signed with Spain and the decision to stop transactions between the two countries was a cause of “maximum concern” for the EU, since the bilateral relations of a third country with an individual Member State are also “part of relations with the EU”.
Thus, since the beginning of the crisis with Algeria, the European External Action Service has maintained contacts with both Madrid and Algiers to learn first-hand about the situation and try to help dialogue between the parties for a diplomatic solution.
It must be remembered that the Algerian authorities criticize the Spanish for the campaign undertaken to try to argue a political turn towards Morocco which, according to what they have put forward, supposes a “violation of the legal, moral and political obligations” of what continues to be the “administering power of Western Sahara.
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