tsa-algerie.dz.- The President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune reiterated on Thursday Algeria’s support for the struggle of the Saharawi people for self-determination.
“We will not give up the Saharawi cause, whatever the price”, the Head of State said on Thursday in a speech at the opening of the government-wall meeting at the Palais des Nations in Algiers.
“For us it is a question of principle. We will fight with all our strength for these causes, the Saharawi cause, the Palestinian cause and all just causes in the world. This is the policy of our country,” he explained.
For the Algerian President, it is necessary to let the Saharawi people decide, through a referendum on self-determination, what they want to be, and Algeria will respect their choice.
“Whether they should be Moroccan or Mauritanian, it is for the Saharawis themselves to decide. In any case, they will not be Algerians,” he said, to reiterate that Algeria has no territorial or other objectives in this matter.
“In any case, they will not be Algerians
President Tebboune recalled that Algeria has defended the same principle in other conflicts elsewhere in the world and that everything went well, except in this case of Western Sahara where “we have become enemies (of Morocco, editor’s note)”, he regretted.
Algeria’s support for the Saharawi people is all the more justified as the question is at the level of the UN decolonisation commission, he argued.
The President of the Republic also mentioned in his speech the Palestinian cause and the situation in Libya.
He expressed the wish that 2023 should be the year of Palestine’s admission “as a full member of the United Nations”, recalling Algeria’s role in the historic reconciliation of Palestinian factions in 2022.
Regarding neighbouring Libya, Tebboune hoped that elections could be held in this country before the end of 2023.
