The Diplomat
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, will travel to Algeria next Monday, invited by his colleague Ahmed Attaf, with the aim of formally closing the diplomatic crisis that opened between the two countries in March 2022.
The announcement of the visit was made this morning by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement that only added that the trip will take place at the invitation of the Algerian minister.
The visit will take place after in November of last year, the president of Algeria, Abdelmajid Tebboune, decided to appoint Abdelfetá Daghmoum as a new ambassador in Madrid, almost twenty months after having called the previous ambassador for consultations, to dramatize the discomfort caused by the letter from the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to King Mohamed VI in which he maintained that the Moroccan autonomy plan for the Sahara is “the most serious, credible and realistic basis” for a solution to the conflict.
Shortly afterwards, the Association of Banks and Financial Entities (Abef) of Algeria gave the directive to the financial entities of that country to freeze direct debits in all foreign trade operations of products originating and destined for Spain. Furthermore, Algeria suspended the Friendship Treaty with Spain, after two decades in force.
After the arrival of the new ambassador, economic restrictions began to ease and commercial transactions of Spanish poultry products were once again allowed.
