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“These parties must understand that political and partisan agendas have no place in foreign policy”

Criticism of Algeria’s vote in favor of Trump’s plan for Gaza:

The APS reacted on Tuesday to criticism, from some internal parties, of Algeria’s vote in favor of Trump’s plan for GHaza. Certain internal parties, indicates the APS, today spoke out against Algerian diplomacy, criticizing the position that our country adopted in the face of the latest resolution of the United Nations Security Council relating to the Palestinian question in general and to the humanitarian and security situation in the Gaza Strip in particular.
“The parties behind such exits must fully understand that political and partisan agendas have no place in foreign policy and that the strong national state will never allow its sovereign decision on foreign policy to be transformed into a tool of political or partisan bargaining, narrow in scope and vision,” the APS said.
Such an exit which lacks, in its form as in its content, the most elementary objective bases, not to say the minimum of knowledge and understanding of the mechanisms of diplomatic action – reveals, before national public opinion fully aware of the constancy of Algerian support for the Palestinian people and their just cause, the true nature of the ulterior motives and designs of these parties. We are, without a doubt, facing an execrable attempt to exploit the country’s foreign policy in the service of narrow political calculations. We are also facing a desperate maneuver aimed at exploiting an issue which is one of the fundamental priorities of our country’s foreign policy, in the hope of extracting gains which have no connection, directly or indirectly, with the national interest, continued the same source.
The national State, recalled the same source, has fully recovered its strength and remains sovereign in all of its decisions, guided exclusively by the national and public interest. A strong national state cannot allow its conduct to be dictated by the whims, impulses or desires of anyone.
“The tragedies of the 1990s are definitively part of the past, after the dignified Algerian people paid a heavy price in the face of the plots which had vainly targeted the national State at its foundations,” the APS further indicated. Making it known that the foreign policy of the Algerian State finds its foundations and its definition mechanisms in the Constitution of the Nation. It is she who makes foreign policy a reserved domain of the President of the Republic, in his capacity as the sole and unique architect of the foreign political decision, in the name of the Algerian Nation.
It is also, continued the same source, which defines the diplomatic apparatus of the State, responsible for rigorously executing this policy. Stating that no one can rise above the Constitution and no source can define our foreign policy outside of its constitutional source.
For its part, the National Democratic Rally (RND) expressed its deep astonishment at the systematic campaign aimed at calling into question Algeria’s pioneering role in defending the just Palestinian cause and its unwavering national commitment to the legitimate rights of the brotherly Palestinian people.
“Algeria’s vote in favor of the United Nations Security Council resolution concerning the peace plan in Gaza reflected its constant position in favor of the Palestinian cause,” said a party statement the day before yesterday, welcoming, on the occasion, the substantial amendments that it managed to make to the draft resolution.
The vote in favor of the latest UN resolution on the situation in Gaza, he said, is part of the constant Algerian position in favor of the Palestinian cause and embodies Algeria’s loyalty to its identity of struggle, to its Arab, Islamic and African belonging, as well as to the international values ​​and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations. Recalling that Algeria, through its permanent mission in New York, spared no effort to protect the Palestinians in Gaza, before and during its mandate as a non-permanent member of the Security Council, and that it was at the heart of all consultations and steps aimed at putting an end to the aggression and guaranteeing humanitarian aid.
Rabah Mokhtari