Quelques extraits d´une depeche de l ambassade US a Alger daté du 22.02.2008:
REGIONAL POLICIES: FAR APART FROM US
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7. (C) Bouteflika is very much his own foreign minister and
his thinking about regional politics has evolved little from
the 1970s. He loyally attends all the NAM and African Union
summits, and he places huge weight on the United Nations,
liberation ideology and negotiation over use of force
(especially Western armed forces). The Algerians are
surprisingly ill informed when events are moving in the
region; they also lack a good grounding in underlying trends
in areas like the Middle East. Arab satellite TV seems to be
a big source of their information. Hence, you will find that
the Algerians take nettlesome positions on the regional
questions of import to us:
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7. (C) Bouteflika is very much his own foreign minister and
his thinking about regional politics has evolved little from
the 1970s. He loyally attends all the NAM and African Union
summits, and he places huge weight on the United Nations,
liberation ideology and negotiation over use of force
(especially Western armed forces). The Algerians are
surprisingly ill informed when events are moving in the
region; they also lack a good grounding in underlying trends
in areas like the Middle East. Arab satellite TV seems to be
a big source of their information. Hence, you will find that
the Algerians take nettlesome positions on the regional
questions of import to us:
- Western Sahara: This is the issue that the GoA cares the
most about and you will likely receive an earful. The GoA
still lingers over the hope that the Baker Plan will come
back despite our telling them repeatedly that it is finished.
The top Algerian leadership stress that they view a Saharan
referendum on independence as a matter of national liberation
as a matter of principle. They don't want to destabilize
Morocco, and they doubt the Western Sahara is so important to
the throne's hold on power. They do not want to start armed
hostilities, although we are less sure they would - or could
- stop every possible Polisario provocation. The Algerians
likely will try to wait for the end of this American
administration hoping that the next one will be less
supportive of the Moroccan autonomy proposal. Explaining the
exhaustion of broad American patience with the long-standing
dispute will be the best way of shaking loose the Algerian
fixation on Baker.
most about and you will likely receive an earful. The GoA
still lingers over the hope that the Baker Plan will come
back despite our telling them repeatedly that it is finished.
The top Algerian leadership stress that they view a Saharan
referendum on independence as a matter of national liberation
as a matter of principle. They don't want to destabilize
Morocco, and they doubt the Western Sahara is so important to
the throne's hold on power. They do not want to start armed
hostilities, although we are less sure they would - or could
- stop every possible Polisario provocation. The Algerians
likely will try to wait for the end of this American
administration hoping that the next one will be less
supportive of the Moroccan autonomy proposal. Explaining the
exhaustion of broad American patience with the long-standing
dispute will be the best way of shaking loose the Algerian
fixation on Baker.
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