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After two unexpected moves from the Libyan party that triggered Algeria’s anger. The Algerian News Agency said that the president of the republic has received, yesterday, Kadaf Eddem, without giving any other information. But well informed sources have put the visit in a context of a quasi crisis stood up between Libya and Algeria in the last two months. The same sources said that Kadaf Eddem “is here to clarify Kadafi’s position that caused Algeria’s anger”. The whole situation is, essentially, related to two positions voiced by Libya, the first is related to declarations that were made by Kadaf Eddem himself in relation to Western Sahara issue, where he declared, after a meeting held in the Sahrawi occupied town of El Ayoun with the Moroccan King, on the 26th March, that Libya “recognised the Arab Sahrawi Republic, but its relationships with Polisario is frozen for the time being”. This was enough, according to the source, that Algeria interprets this declaration as a step back from the Libyans concerning the recognition of the Sahrwi right to build their state, and even the declaration was understood as a refusal to the idea of an independent Sahrawi state. The same sources declared that Kadaf Eddem declarations “in fact, reflected the Libyan revolution leader’s irritation as to roles distribution within the African Union, on the ground that his areas of influence are diminishing in favour of Algeria and South Africa. The source made it clear that the backing up of Algeria to place the Parliament in Johannesburg is not an amicable position towards Libya. The second factor that put the bilateral relationship in troubles, is related to the initiative that was launched by Muammar Kadafi from Timbuktu, northern of Mali, in the mid of April, in which he calls Touareg and ethnical tribes that live in the great desert to be unified in order to build a federation to stop the western invasion against Muslim countries, and this step very much angered Algeria that didn’t voice any official response, to avoid the creation of another front which will worsen the situation in the Maghreb, but she sent signals to colonel Kadafi showing that he stepped on the red line. H. Yes — El-Khabar | ||||||||||||||||||
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Algéria : Kadafi sends his cousin to Bouteflika for appeasement