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Algeria’s Foreign Minister, Ahmed Attaf, has seemingly backed down from a diplomatic spat with Morocco regarding a property near the Algerian embassy in Rabat. In a press conference on Tuesday, Attaf stated that “Morocco’s justifications were appropriate, and the issue is over.”
This comes after Morocco released evidence showing communication with Algeria about the property dating back to January 2022. On March 17, the Algerian Foreign Ministry condemned “the confiscation of its embassy’s property,” threatening retaliation. But leaked documents revealed Morocco’s intent to purchase the unused building through official channels.
Diplomatic sources who spoke with Hespress previously said that Morocco “does not seek escalation or provocation” against Algeria, stressing that the procedures for annexing buildings belonging to the Algerian embassy in Rabat “are still in place.” The source emphasized that Morocco has been working to “maintain a friendly relationship between the two countries and the brotherhood between the two peoples,” considering that the Algerian Foreign Ministry’s talk of “confiscating its diplomatic representations in Morocco” are “baseless allegations.”
The diplomatic source explained that Algeria had seized the buildings of the Algerian Chancellery in Rabat. The diplomatic source explained that the buildings of the chancellery and the residence of the Algerian embassy in Rabat “are not affected by any measure,” adding that contrary to what the Algerian authorities claim, “the chancellery and the residence of the former Algerian ambassador in Rabat, whose land was offered free of charge by the Moroccan authorities, have not been confiscated.”
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Algeria viewed this as an unspeakable violation of respect and the duty to protect diplomatic representations of sovereign states, which are sanctified by both international law and custom.
