The national State has fully recovered its strength and remains sovereign in all its decisions, driven solely by the national and public interest. A strong national State cannot allow its course to be dictated by anyone’s whims, impulses or desires.
The tragedies of the 1990s are firmly in the past, after the dignified Algerian people paid dearly in confronting plots that futilely sought to undermine the national state at its very foundations.
Algeria’s foreign policy is rooted in and draws its defining mechanisms from the Nation’s Constitution. The Constitution makes foreign policy the exclusive prerogative of the President of the Republic, as the sole architect of foreign policy decisions, in the name of the Algerian Nation. The Constitution likewise establishes the State’s diplomatic apparatus, tasked with rigorously implementing this policy.
No one is above the Constitution, and our foreign policy answers to no source but the constitutional one.
Certain domestic parties have spoken out against Algerian diplomacy, criticizing the stance our country took on the latest United Nations (UN) Security Council resolution concerning the Palestinian question generally and the humanitarian and security situation in the Gaza Strip particularly.
Such a statement, lacking the most basic objective foundations in both form and substance – to say nothing of a basic grasp of diplomatic mechanisms – lays bare to a national public, fully aware of Algeria’s unwavering support for the Palestinian people and their just cause, the real nature of these parties’ ulterior motives and designs.
We are undoubtedly witnessing a despicable attempt to instrumentalize the country’s foreign policy for narrow political calculations. We are also seeing a desperate ploy aimed at exploiting a question at the very heart of our country’s foreign policy, hoping to extract gains utterly disconnected from the national interest.
Those behind such statements must understand clearly that political and partisan scheming has no place in foreign policy, and that the strong national state will never allow its sovereign foreign policy decisions to be turned into tools for political or partisan bargaining, shortsighted in both reach and vision.
