Former Tunisian Minister describes his successor’s statements on Algeria as “shameful.”

Mounji Al-Hamidi, a former Tunisian foreign minister and former UN envoy to Mali, described the statements of his successor at the head of the Tunisian Foreign Ministry, Ahmed Wanis, critical of Algeria as “disgraceful and irresponsible.”

It “does not represent the truth,” he said. He affirmed that “the Tunisian people, who have great esteem and respect for Algeria, a people and a state, will not accept describing Algeria in such terms” with which he described Wanis, the western neighbor.

Al-Hamdi said that Algeria’s role in the region is considered a “pivotal and positive role” in efforts to achieve peace and stability through quiet and peaceful intervention to solve successive crises in cooperation with the African Union and the United Nations and within the framework of international legitimacy.

The Tunisian Foreign Ministry had distanced itself from Wanis’ statements on Monday to a private radio station, in which he criticized the Algerian role regarding developments in the situation in the Sahara.

Algeria had contributed to solving the Mali crisis and the signing of the peace and reconciliation agreement between the Malian parties in 2015 under the auspices of the United Nations, when Mounji Al-Hamidi was the UN Secretary-General’s envoy to Mali.

Source: Algerian newspaper “El Khabar”

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