2023-05-05 15:49:00
Excluded from the peace process in Syria, marginalized within the UMA absent from major international meetings, the “new Algeria” of the Tebboune-Chengriha tandem is collecting diplomatic setbacks, one following the other, while its media cease to trumpet “the return in force of Algerian diplomacy”, transforming the failure of the Arab summit held in Algiers on November 1st into a success that exists only in their imagination.
During the preparations for the Algiers summit, the Algerian leaders kept shouting to anyone who wanted to hear them that the meeting of the heads of the Arab states was going to be an unprecedented success and would be the occasion for the reunification of the Arab ranks. The choice of the date of November 1 was a way of playing on the sensitive chord of the Arab peoples and states which made sacred the Algerian war of liberation once morest French colonialism. This is what led the Arab sovereigns to accept the holding of the Arab League summit in November 2022 when it was to be held in March of the same year. The summit was canceled because of the bellicose policy of the Algerian leaders once morest the Moroccan neighbor with whom they had broken diplomatic relations a few months earlier and closed the airspace to all Moroccan civil and military aircraft in addition to the continuation of the border closure that dates back to 1994.
By announcing with great fanfare the will of the regime in Algiers to make the November summit that of the reunification of the Arab ranks while maintaining their hostile policy once morest their neighbor to the West, the leaders of the Arab countries did not not left cheated by an Algerian diplomacy harboring a lot of contradictions and lacking in sincerity and imagination. Despite the Moroccan sovereign’s appeal to the leaders of the countries of the Arab Gulf to come to Algiers in large numbers for the success of the summit, none of the kings and emirs of this region had gone to a meeting whose objective was much more restore an Algerian image that has been tarnished enough to give this Arab league the new breath it needs.
The only head of state of the Gulf countries who had visited Algiers was the Emir of Qatar, Tamim Ben Hamad Al Thani. His presence has served his guests much more than it has served them. Not only did the Emir arrive late and suddenly he did not attend the opening of the conference, worse still, the next day he did not go to the meeting. He spent the day sightseeing in the Casbah, in old Algiers following having forced the Algerian president to suspend the work of the summit to accompany him to lay the first stone of a hospital financed by Qatar and carried out by the Germans. .
Tebboune may have purred that his summit was a great success, the fact remains that all observers, whether Arab or foreign, have noted a failure, the least of which we can say was announcement. A failure whose responsibility is fully assumed by a diplomacy totally subject to the orders of soldiers who are fixated on Morocco to justify their excessive expenditure in terms of armaments from which they draw large bribes in full view of all. the world. It’s no secret.
Syria this other trade register quickly lost
Algiers, which has long chimed in on the Syrian question to turn it into a commercial register that would divert local public opinion from its real political and socio-economic problems, has just suffered a scathing setback on the Arab political scene.
On April 30, the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Jordan invited his counterparts from the countries of the Cooperation Council of Gulf States, Egypt and Iraq to hold a meeting devoted to the Syrian crisis which has lasted for more than a dozen years. This meeting follows on from the one held on April 14 in Riyadh at the invitation of Prince Fayçal Benferhane Al Saoud, Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs. In both meetings, Algeria, which has held the presidency of the Arab League since the Algiers summit of November 1, 2022, is superbly ignored. Worse. The day following the Riyadh meeting, a message was sent by the Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs to his Moroccan counterpart, Nasser Bourita to keep him informed of the resolutions taken during this meeting.
Tebboune’s ears really warmed when he heard the news. Not only does not a single Arab country support Algiers, even half-heartedly, in its anti-Moroccan belligerences, but they go so far as to ignore the Algerian soldiery when it comes to playing on what the Algerians consider it their flowerbeds. They are the ones who maneuvered behind the scenes and in public for Syria’s return to the Arab concert. And once morest all odds, it was the Gulf countries with Egypt, Iraq and Jordan that took over the file and limited themselves to informing Morocco without paying the slightest attention to Algeria, which holds the presidency of the Arab League. A real beating for a power in search of international legitimacy in the absence of legitimacy on the internal level.
On the African level, things are not going any better. Nor on the Maghreb plan. Neither. The recent appointment of the Moroccan diplomat Amina Salmane as permanent representative of the UMA to the African Union has earned a volley of green wood for Algerian diplomacy from the Tunisian Tayeb Baccouche Secretary General of the Maghreb Union, on the channel television station France 24, when Algiers, through its ambassador in Addis Ababa, timidly challenged the appointment of the Moroccan diplomat.
To close this tour on the setbacks of Algerian diplomacy, it should be noted that the functions of five of the seven super diplomats designated as special envoys on sensitive issues have been terminated, in total discretion.
While their appointment in September 2021 was made with great fanfare, their end of office, which is an admission of failure, was the subject of a discreet publication in the official journal on April 16. The two remaining are Amar Belani who has just been appointed Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs without it being known if he has kept his previous function that of “special envoy to Western Sahara and the Maghreb countries”. A special envoy who has never set foot in the Sahara or in any other Maghreb country since his appointment to this post. He had limited himself to multiplying belligerent declarations once morest Morocco during the first months of his mandate. Since then, nothing.
The second super diplomat is Boudjemaa Dilmi “special envoy in charge of African issues and monitoring reconciliation and peace in Mali”.
In conclusion, diplomacy has never experienced so much instability as under the regime of the Chengriha-Tebboune duo. 3 ministers of foreign affairs have succeeded each other in 3 years and creation of 7 positions of super diplomats quickly dissolved for lack of performance. “A performance that might never see the light of day as long as the diplomat is only an executor of orders from the barracks”, suggests a diplomat who experienced the glorious times of Algerian diplomacy.
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