Believing that it might make Madrid reconsider its sovereign decision to support the Moroccan autonomy plan for the Sahara, the Algerian regime was humiliated by canceling, Thursday, July 28, the measures suspending foreign trade with Spain.
Delusions of grandeur and the making of rash and untimely decisions can only lead to humiliation. The Algerian regime, whose attempts at trade sanctions once morest Spain have fizzled, has just found out to its cost.
Since the announcement, on March 18, of Madrid’s historic decision recognizing that the solution to the dispute created around the Sahara resides in the Moroccan autonomy plan alone, the Algerian regime has become hysterical. His many gesticulations and attempts to make Spain reconsider its sovereign decision were in vain and only served to strengthen Spain’s new position (government and parliament) on the Moroccan nature of the Sahara.
Whether it is gas blackmail, the recall of the Algerian ambassador to Madrid, the suspension of the 2002 Algerian-Spanish treaty of friendship, cooperation and good neighborliness, or the suspension, on the same day , bank domiciliations relating to imports and exports from and to Spain, all these measures have left Spanish decision-makers unmoved, strong in the support of the European Union (EU), and in the sovereign and legitimate nature of the orientations of their policy exterior.
Thus, it has now become clear that it is the Algerian regime which itself gave the order, on June 8, to the Association of Algerian Banks and Financial Institutions (ABEF) to suspend bank domiciliations relating trade with Spain.
But following the severe and immediate warning from the EU on the following June 10, and in order to extricate itself from the quagmire in which it got bogged down on its own, the Algerian regime instructed its ambassador in Brussels to deny any trade sanctions. on his part once morest Spain. A press release from the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also confirmed, on June 12, 2022, this humiliating backpedal for the Algerian President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who had announced the severance of relations with Spain.
The most surprising thing is that just a week ago, on July 23, 2022 to be exact, the ABEF issued a new note in which it suggests, at least from reading its title, that there has had, since June 8, “measures freezing the bank domiciliation of foreign trade operations of products and services from and to Spain”. But that this freeze is not retroactive and does not concern either commercial operations “domiciled before June 09, 2022”, nor “goods from Spain or of Spanish origin shipped before June 09, 2022”.
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Less than five days following giving the impression of letting go of ballast with regard to Spain, and without the slightest explanation, the same ABEF publishes a new note announcing this time to the Algerian banks the outright cancellation of all the measures blocking foreign trade with Spain.
Thus, in its laconic note of Thursday July 28, the ABEF announces that at the end of the operation of evaluation of the device (…) and in consultation with the actors concerned of the foreign trade, the precautionary measures (… ) are no longer valid”.
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Only one month and 20 days following the real-false decision to suspend trade (excluding natural gas) with Spain, the Algerian regime is retreating and sketching a return to normal with Spain, without the latter gives up one iota on its historical position concerning the Moroccan Sahara.
This humiliating backpedaling is reminiscent of the shortcomings suffered once morest France, in October 2021, when Algiers recalled its ambassador to Paris and closed its airspace to French military planes, following remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron, its truths regarding Algeria and faithfully restoring the lackluster image that the Algerian regime sends of itself to the rest of the world. “Official history in Algeria has been completely rewritten”, “was there an Algerian nation before French colonization?”, “the Algerian system is tired, the Hirak has weakened it”, “the political system -military was built on a memorial rent”, had dropped the French president.
Emmanuel Macron has never reconsidered his statements on the “politico-military system” that is rampant in Algeria and even less expressed regret or apologized. After gesticulating and suggesting that the crisis will be opened with France, the Algerian regime sent its ambassador back to his Parisian post, first on the sly then officially, before Ramtane Lamamra made a fool of himself in the face of the world with a hug. not off-putting and humiliating with the French president, on February 17, 2022, during the African Union-European Union summit in Brussels.
Epidermal crisis, reprisals, threats and then a return to normal without getting anything in return. Such is the modus operandi of a regime that opens crises that it is not in a position to assume.
