UN: Washington urges Algerian regime to change its behavior, source of tension in the region

The United States has demanded the Algerian regime to change its behavior in the region during the meeting held lately in New York between U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs John Bass and Algerian foreign minister Ahmed Attaf.

According to a diplomatic source at the U.S. State Department cited by press reports, the meeting, which took place on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, was attended by Deputy Assistant Secretary for North Africa Joshua Harris who had called on Algerian rulers on several occasions to show a spirit of realism and compromise in the Sahara issue.

The meeting with Attaf was an opportunity for a “frank and realistic” discussion of several issues amid accelerating events and soaring tension in the world, urging the Algerian regime to change its behavior in the region already facing serious security, political, economic and social challenges.

According to some experts, the strained relations between Algeria and its Sahel neighboring countries (Mali, Chad, Niger & Burkina Faso) and the escalating war in the Middle East have pushed Washington to warn the Algerian regime, an ally of Teheran and axis of evil, against the consequences of its reckless destabilizing actions in the region.

In July, U.S. Ambassador to Algeria Elizabeth Moore Aubin said the American recognition of Morocco’s full sovereignty over its entire Saharan territory is a “historical fact” and an irreversible decision as evidenced by the Biden Administration which has maintained the U.S. stand announced by former President Donald Trump.

Her remarks dealt a hard blow to the ruling Algerian junta who spent billions of petrodollars on a lost cause for nearly five decades, leaving Algerian people suffering from acute shortages of drinking water, basic food, medicine….

Several international think-tanks have affirmed that the Sahara conflict is over, urging the Polisario and Algeria to negotiate terms of peace before the status quo becomes permanent as the North African Kingdom continues gaining a growing international support for its sovereignty over its Sahara and autonomy.

For Washington, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, London, Moscow, Beijing… the resolution of the Sahara conflict will defuse tension in Moroccan-Algerian relationship and help improve regional stability, while the international community is rallying around Morocco’s win-win partnership projects, drivers of shared growth and prosperity.