Reacting to the speech of Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, in which he affirmed his country’s commitment to supporting the idea of secession in the southern regions of Morocco under the guise of so-called “supporting peoples in self-determination,” Axel Belabbassi, a leader in the Kabylie Independence Movement in Algeria (MAC), said: “ The isolation that the Algerian regime is experiencing at the international level and the divisions that it is suffering from internally have plunged it into a political spiral from which it is difficult to emerge unscathed.
Belabbasi added, in a statement to the electronic newspaper Hespress, that “the effects of this crisis appear in the contradictions expressed by this regime, which are evident in its often contradictory positions; Among them is his support for the so-called Sahara issue, highlighting that “Algeria says it supports the right of peoples to self-determination; But it prevents this from the tribal people who enjoy all the conditions, according to international laws, to establish their independent state, while it supports a fictitious cause that does not meet the minimum of these conditions.”
The same tribal leader stressed that “the Algerian president’s speech last Sunday will remain recorded in Algeria’s black history.” Because, unfortunately, he crossed all limits of internationally recognized politics and diplomacy, and used offensive language against the writer and intellectual Boualem Sansal, which is not appropriate for the position of President of the Republic and is primarily offensive to his person and to all the Algerian people whom he represents,” referring to Tebboune’s description of Sansal (who is detained in Algeria). In his speech about “the thief” and “of unknown father.”
Belabbasi continued, saying, “Such statements do not bode well for the future of Algeria, especially with the fluctuations that the world is witnessing at this stage,” adding: “We in the tribal government call on the Algerian regime to return to rationality and accept the status quo before it is too late, and to sit at the dialogue table with… Representatives of the Kabyle people and all other parties present in Algeria to find a way out that everyone agrees on.”
In his interaction with a question from Hespress newspaper about the process of internationalizing the issue of the tribal people and registering it in the relevant UN committees, the same spokesman confirmed that “the tribal independence movement and the interim tribal government in exile are in the process of working to convince the countries that adopt the issue to support it officially, so that we can register our case in the committee.” International Political Questions and Decolonization.
It is worth noting that Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, on Sunday, during a speech before the two chambers of Parliament, renewed Algeria’s support for the “Polisario” Front, which calls for secession in the Sahara, considering that the Algerian position is “a fixed position that will not change today or in the future,” and calling for granting The so-called “Sahrawi people” have the right to “self-determination.”
The electronic newspaper Hespress learned, earlier, from an official source within the interim tribal government in exile, “Anavad,” that the latter is preparing to send foreign correspondence to a group of countries, led by Morocco, in order to obtain their support in registering the tribes’ issue in the United Nations Committee for Decolonization. He stressed that “the tribal people will support these requests with a legal opinion recently issued by a British law firm that recognizes the tribal people and enshrines their right to self-determination under international laws.”
