Physical Address
Indirizzo: Via Mario Greco 60, Buttigliera Alta, 10090, Torino, Italy
The Algerian authorities have decided to end the 2013 agreement governing the exemption from visas for the holders of diplomatic visas and service from two countries, the day after the letter addressed by French President Emmanuel Macron to his Prime Minister, François Bayrou, devoted to disagreements between the two capitals. This was said on Thursday a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“The Algerian authorities have examined with great attention the letter addressed by the French President to his Prime Minister, as well as the explanations provided on August 7 at the Algerian Embassy in France by the Quai d’Orsay”, notes the same source, specifying that “the examination of the said letter and the explanations which accompanied it authorize important preliminary observations”.
“First of all, and with regard to the degradation of the Algerian-French relationships, this letter exempts France from all of its responsibilities and makes all the wrongs bring to the Algerian part. Nothing is further from truth and reality. In all its phases, the current crisis has regularly given rise to official press releases from the Algerian Foreign Ministry. These press releases systematically established responsibilities in climbing and reveal that the reactions and countermeasures that the Algerian authorities have been able to adopt strictly and rigorously in the context of the application of the principle of reciprocity, “noted the press release.
“Secondly, the letter is working to project from France the image of a country highly concerned with respecting its bilateral and international obligations and Algeria that of a state in continuous violation of its own. There is also nothing is further from truth and reality. In this case, it was France that has contravened its own internal legislation. It was France, also, which has failed to comply with its commitments in the triple title of the Algerian-French agreement of 1968 relating to the traffic, employment and stay in France of Algerian nationals and their families, the Algerian-French consular convention of 1974 and the Algerian-French agreement of 2013 relating to the exemption of visas for the holders of diplomatic passports and service. It is France, moreover, which has given itself the sole object of fixing the Algerian-French agreement of 1994 relating to the readmission of Algerian nationals alive in an irregular situation in France, an agreement from which it has distorted the reason for being and diverted the real objectives. It is France, finally, which has freed itself from its duties contracted under the European Convention on Human Rights of 1950 ”.
“All of these French failures have only been intended to comply with the respect of the acquired rights of Algerian nationals often distant arbitrarily and abusively from French territory, their deprivation of the possibilities of administrative and judicial appeals which the French legislation guarantees itself and to empty all content the duty of consular protection of the Algerian state in terms of its nationals in all places and press release.
“Thirdly, France, as soon as this crisis is on its own, has laid its management in terms of power relations. It was she who proceeded by injunctions, ultimatums and summons. It was to ignore, slightly, that Algeria does not give in to pressure, threat and blackmail whatever they are. It is these observations that today dictate the Algerian response to the letter addressed by the French head of state to the head of his executive ”.
“Algeria wishes to recall, once again, that it was historically at the origin of any request for the conclusion of a bilateral visa exemption agreement for the benefit of diplomatic passports and service holders. On many occasions, it was France, and it alone, which was at the origin of such a request. By deciding the suspension of this agreement, France offers Algeria the appropriate opportunity to announce, on the other hand, the pure and simple denunciation of this same agreement. In accordance with the provisions of article 08 of the said agreement, the Algerian government will incessantly notify the French government this denunciation by diplomatic route ”.
“From now on, the visas which will be granted to French holders of diplomatic and service passports will obey, in all respects, under all conditions as those that the French party will impose on their Algerian counterparts”.
“In relation to the announcement of the reactivation of the visa-readmission lever, the Algerian government would like to note that this lever is in the flagrant violation of the Algerian-French agreement of 1968 and the European Convention on Human Rights of 1950. The consular protection of Algeria with regard to its nationals in France will be flawless. It will help them assert their rights and enforce everything that French and European legislation guarantees them as defense against abuse and arbitrariness. ”
“The letter from the French head of state to his Prime Minister makes a biased presentation of the problem of accreditations of diplomatic and consular personnel in the two countries. For more than two years, France has taken the initiative not to grant accreditations in question to the Algerian consular staff, including three general consuls and five consuls. On this subject, as in others, Algeria has only applied the principle of reciprocity. As soon as the French obstacles are lifted, Algeria will respond with similar measures. This position has already been notified to the French authorities, it remains in force ”.
In its final provisions, the letter from the French head of state to its Prime Minister lists a certain number of bilateral litigation to be the subject of a regulations. Algeria also intends to seize, by diplomatic route, the French part of other litigation to be the subject of the same search for regulations, ”concludes the press release.