OTHER OFFICIAL STATEMENTS
- Allocution de Monsieur Mourad MEDELCI, Ministre des Affaires étrangères à l'ouverture de l'exposition, placée sous le haut patronage de Son Excellence Monsieur le Président de la République, Abdelaziz BOUTEFLIKA sous le thème : « 50 ans de diplomatie algérienne : mémoire et réalisations » . Read more...
- Communiqué du Conseil des ministres du 26/12/2012.Read more...
- Interview du président Bouteflika à l’AFP (INTEGRAL). Read more...
- Conflit en Libye : il n'y a aucune ambiguïté dans la position de l'Algérie (M. MEDELCI)
MAE, 01 septembre 2011
Le Ministre des Affaires Etrangères, M. Mourad MEDELCI, a affirmé jeudi qu'il n'y avait aucune ambiguïté dans la position algérienne concernant le conflit en Libye et que sa neutralité n'est pas synonyme de complicité avec le régime de Maâmmar El-Gueddafi.
"Il n'y a aucune ambiguïté (dans la position algérienne). L'Algérie a dit son mot. Elle l'a dit au sein de la Ligue arabe dans un cadre démocratique. Elle s'est rangée à la majorité de la Ligue. Lorsque la résolution 1973 a été prise, elle l'a appliquée résolument", a déclaré le chef de la diplomatie algérienne sur Europe 1, à quelques heures de l'ouverture à Paris d'une conférence de soutien à la Libye à laquelle il doit prendre part.
Pour le ministre, l'Algérie a marqué sa "différence" au début du conflit "tout simplement parce qu'elle a porté l'espoir que l'affaire libyenne va être réglée par la paix sans intervention d'une force étrangère".
"Si on considère aujourd'hui que la position de l'Algérie est ambiguë, c'est très bien. Parce qu'il y a quelques semaines, on considérait tout simplement que l'Algérie était du côté d'El-Gueddafi. Je crois qu'il y a une avancée", a-t-il dit, souhaitant que maintenant que la paix va venir et que les lampions de la guerre vont s'éteindre, "la vérité sur le comportement de l'Algérie va être révélée".
A la question de savoir si la neutralité de l'Algérie dans le conflit libyen était synonyme d'une complicité avec le régime d'El Gueddafi, le ministre a répondu par la négative. "Non, nous avons été neutre avec les révolutionnaires en Tunisie et en Egypte, et on nous a pas traités de cette façon là. Pour le cas de la Libye, la situation est un peu différente parce qu'en Libye nous avons constaté des interventions étrangères".
Pour le chef de la diplomatie algérienne, une intervention étrangère de cette envergure, à la frontière de l'Algérie, évoque des "mémoires douloureuses et vous pouvez comprendre que les Algériens n'aient pas reçu le message de la même façon que les autres pays qui ont été à l'origine de cette initiative".
Interrogé si l'Algérie serait prête à extrader des proches d'El-Gueddafi qu'elle accueille sur son sol, il a rappelé qu'il y a entre l'Algérie et la Libye un cadre juridique bilatéral auquel Alger "fera référence". M. MEDELCI a, auparavant, indiqué que le "temps de réflexion pour accueillir ces familles (composées essentiellement de femmes et d'enfants) a été très court et que le sens de l'accueil y a prévalu".
Quant à l'éventualité de l'accueil d'El-Gueddafi au cas où celui-ci demanderait l'asile en Algérie, il a affirmé que cette hypothèse "n'a jamais été examinée chez nous" et que "l'Algérie a été respectueuse du droit international dès son origine et des résolutions du Conseil de sécurité, et elle continuera à le faire de manière ferme et résolue".
"Cela veut dire que l'Algérie n'ira pas à l'encontre de la volonté internationale de régler le problème libyen et l'Algérie ne prendra --et elle ne l'a jamais fait-- partie pour El-Gueddafi", a précisé M. MEDELCI.
Interrogé enfin sur sa participation (jeudi) à la conférence internationale sur la Libye qui serait une "reconnaissance de facto du CNT (Conseil national de transition libyen)", il a indiqué que le CNT est "porteur de facteurs de volonté d'émancipation, d'une plus grande liberté du peuple libyen".
"Je crois que l'Algérie a longtemps été la Mecque des révolutionnaires et des hommes libres. Si nous avons eu un problème avec la façon dont la question (libyenne) a été traitée, ce problème est lié essentiellement au fait que nous sommes chatouilleux sur les questions de souveraineté", a conclu le chef de la diplomatie algérienne.
- Foreign Ministry categorically denies information on the passage to Algeria of a convoy of vehicles from Libya
APS, 08/27/11
The Foreign Ministry denied on august 27th, "in the most categorical manner," the information relayed by some editors and news agencies on the passage in Algeria of a convoy of vehicles from Libya.
Questioned by APS on this information, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Amar Belani said that "in recent months, Algeria is targeted by a flood of false information, of which the fallacy has been repeatedly proven," stressing that "it is the same for the information disseminated by Mena agency about Mercedes vehicles that allegedly crossed the border between Algeria and Libya."
- Algeria has implemented a policy of “strict neutrality” since the beginning of the Libyan crisis, says Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Algérie Presse Service (APS) – August 26, 2011
Algeria has implemented, since the beginning of the Libyan crisis, a policy of “strict neutrality by refusing to interfere, in any way whatsoever, in the domestic affairs” of its neighbor, Mr. Amar Belani, the spokesman for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, declared today.
- Algeria denies that it is ready to recognize the Libyan rebels if they commit themselves to fighting AQIM
Algérie Presse Service (APS) – August 26, 2011
Algeria categorically denies a report by the Reuters press agency, according to which a government source is said to have declared that Algeria would be ready to recognize the Libyan rebels if they commit themselves to fighting Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), said the spokesman for the ministry for Foreign Affirs, Mr. Amar Belani.
In a statement made to APS about a report by Reuters press agency, Mr. Belani underlined that he categorically denied the information conveyed by the report, which he termed baseless and said does not represent the position nor reflects the views of the Algerian Government regarding the recent events that took place in Libya.
- Mr. Amar Belani, Spokesman for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs: “Aisha Gaddafi is not in Algeria”
Tout sur l’Algérie (TSA) – June 7, 2011
Hereafter is the interview given on June 7, 2011, to TSA’s Samir Allam by Mr. Amar Belani, spokesman for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and published today by TSA on its Website.
Question: Is Aisha Gaddafi in Algeria?
Mr. BELANI: I formally deny the rumor about Ms. Aisha Gaddafi’s presence in Algeria.
Question: Relations with the Libyan National Transitional Council seem to be improving...
Mr. BELANI: I will remind you of a statement made at a press conference on June 1 by Minister Delegate (for Maghreb and African Affairs) Abdelkader Messahel, who declared that Algeria is in contact with all the Libyan parties, within the framework of the efforts being deployed to seek a peaceful resolution of the Libyan crisis.
I will also recall that, from the beginning, Algeria has put all its weight, including within the African Union, behind the search for a peaceful resolution through an inclusive dialogue among all the Libyan brothers with the objective of answering and meeting the legitimate aspirations of the Libyan people to democracy, justice, development, and the creation of genuinely representative institutions through free elections.
The African Union roadmap, in support of which our country has deployed great efforts, aims in fact to facilitate a democratic and consensual transition as a way of settling a crisis that has plunged the brotherly Libyan people into mourning and which has grave consequences for regional security and stability.
Question: Algeria has just frozen the Libyan assets. Can you say that this move is a break with the Gaddafi regime?
Mr. BELANI: With regards to the freeze of Libyan assets, I will recall that Algeria made public on March 20, 2011, that is to say the day following the adoption of Resolution 1973 by the UN Security Council, a statement indicating that it had taken note of that resolution which is binding on all member countries of the United States.
Scrupulously abiding by the provisions of Resolutions 1970 and 1973, our country enforced fully and without delay the sanctions imposed by the Security Council on Libya and (in that regard) we are getting ready to submit next June 26 a report to the UN Sanctions Committee.
Question: However, Algeria continues to supply Libya with foodstuffs and medicine
Mr. BELANI: Regarding the issue of supply of urgent-need products, I will recall that Algeria has given its agreement in principle in reply to a Libyan request to provide only foodstuffs and medicine, excluding any other product with binary use.
The United Nations Sanctions Committee was informed in early May 2011, that the operation will be opened to all Libyan economic operators without exception, including those domiciled in Benghazi, and that it will be conducted on a strictly commercial basis and covering the entire Libyan territory.
Acting beyond the provisions of the resolutions in question and to make sure that everything is conducted in great transparency, we have invited the Sanctions Committee to designate, if it so wishes, a UN representative on the ground to supervise the operation at the Debdeb border post, which will be the only passage point for the supply of any commercial agreements that would likely be concluded for the conduct of this operation.
- Algeria condemns “in the strongest terms” the terrorist attack in Marrakesh
Ministry for Foreign Affairs – May 1, 2011
Algeria condemns in the strongest terms “the cowardly” terrorist attack directed at “Argana” Café in the central square in Marrakesh, Morocco, killing and injuring numerous people, said a statement issued by the Spokesman of the ministry for Foreign Affairs.
“Such an abject act can only generate an irrevocable condemnation,” said the Spokesman of the ministry.
“In these tragic circumstances, we extend our deepest condolences to the authorities and the people of Morocco and assure the families of the victims of our sympathy and compassion”, said the statement.
- Algeria condemns campaign involving it in "alleged support" of mercenaries in Libya
[Aps 12/4/11]
ALGIERS- Algeria on Tuesday has dubbed the campaign aiming at involving it in an "alleged support" of mercenary operations in Libya "irresponsible obstinacy."
"Despite several categorical denials made by the Algerian authorities, Mustapha Abdeljalil (head of the Libya's National Transitional Council) has chosen to go back on the denial he made to these alleged accusations in an interview given to an Algerian daily on 5 March 2011 and has unfairly accused Algeria of supporting mercenary operations in Libya," said a communiqué of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."
This irresponsible obstinacy to involve the Algerian authorities at all costs, makes us wonder about the intentions and motivations of those behind this conspiracy against a country blamed because it has refused to interfere in the Libyan interior affairs, deplored the disproportionate use of force and warned against the deadly dangers of the infiltration of terrorist groups in the Libyan territory," the Ministry said.
- Algeria's alleged implication in mercenary activities in Libya: Slanderous allegations, says Foreign Ministry
The ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday dubbed "slanderous allegations" the disinformation campaign meant to implicate Algerian authorities in mercenary actions allegedly carried out by Algerian nationals. In reply to an APS question about alleged presence of Algerian mercenaries in Libya, the chief communication officer at the ministry of Foreign Affairs, said he had been assigned, as the ministry's spokesman, to "categorically deny, and on several occasions, such slanderous allegations, which he described as a disinformation campaign aiming to implicate Algerian authorities in what is presented as mercenary activities allegedly carried out by Algerian nationals."
- Medelci, Clinton hold telephone talks
ALGIERS- Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci held Monday evening telephone talks with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, at the initiative of the latter, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Tuesday in a statement.
The talks focused on key issues of common interest, in particular on the conditions and measures likely to further promote relations between the two countries, the source added.