The Spanish government said it regrets Algeria’s decision to suspend a cooperation treaty, tightening tensions after Madrid reversed its position in favor of Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara.
“The Spanish government considers Algeria to be a friendly neighboring country and reiterates its full readiness to continue maintaining and developing the special relationship of cooperation between the two countries, for the benefit of both peoples,” Spanish diplomatic sources wrote in a statement seen by Hespress EN.
“The Spanish Government reaffirms its full commitment to the content of the Treaty and to the principles which underpin it,” said the sources.
The cooperation treaty provided for the strengthening of political dialogue between the two countries in the fields of economy, finance, education, and defense.
Earlier today, Algeria decided to proceed with “the immediate suspension of the Treaty of friendship, good neighborliness, and cooperation which it concluded on October 8, 2002 with the Kingdom of Spain and which governed until here the development of relations between the two countries.”
Algeria blamed Spain for failing to adhere to its ” legal, moral and political obligations”, as a former colonizing, and current regional power.
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