The Algerian Foreign Minister did not mention the French president, but described this “memorial bankruptcy” of “intergenerational in a number of actors in French political life”.
Le Monde with AFP
Although Emmanuel Macron called Tuesday at the “appeasement”, the tension does not falter between France and Algeria. The Algerian Foreign Minister, Ramtane Lamamra, said Wednesday, October 6, that the diplomatic crises opposing France to his country and in Mali, were a “memorial bankruptcy”, according to the remarks disseminated by Malian television.
m. Lamamra also affirmed the need for some foreign leaders to “discolonize their own story”. The chief of Algerian diplomacy met Tuesday, Malian transition leaders in Bamako. In these statements, he evoked the crisis between Paris in Algiers, triggered by the words attributed to Mr. Macron evoking a “politico-military” system in Algeria, which maintained a “memorial annuity”.
These tensions have, moreover, coincided with the tensions between France and Mali, neighbor of Algeria and another former French colony. The situation has been invented on the 25th of September, after a speech at the UN in which the Prime Minister of Malian transition, Choguel Kokalla Maïga, accused France, engaged militarily in Mali since 2013, “abandoning in full flight” To justify a possible use of Russian private company Wagner.
Macron, not quoted namely
“Our foreign partners need to discolonize their own history,” said Ramtane Lamamra, without evoking the wish “of appeasement” expressed Tuesday by the French president. “They [the foreign partners of Algeria] need to be free of certain attitudes, certain behaviors, certain visions that are intrinsically linked to the inconsistent logic carried by the alleged civilizing mission of the West, which was the Ideological coverage used to try to pass the crime against humanity that the colonization of Algeria has been, the colonization of Mali and the colonization of so many African peoples, “he continued.
The Algerian minister described this “decolonization” as a “priority” so that the “memorial bankruptcy”, manifested, according to him, by the recent French remarks towards Algeria and Mali, can “meet by a unconditional mutual respect, respect for our sovereignty, respect for our decision independence “. However, he did not name Mr Macron but spoke of a “bankruptcy memorial, which unfortunately intergenerational among a number of players in the French political life, sometimes at the highest levels,” and “pushing The relations of the official France with some of our countries in unfortunate crisis situations “.