Trump’s advisor is on a visit to Algeria, and Bolton is on a mission to control – the new Algeria

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Community and African Affairs, Ahmed Attaf, received the US President’s Advisor for Africa, Arab Affairs and the Middle East, Massad Boulos, who arrived in Algeria on an official visit on Tuesday.

This meeting represented an opportunity to review various aspects of Algerian-American relations, and to discuss ways to strengthen them and raise them to the highest possible levels. The two parties also noted the importance of strengthening the existing strategic dialogue between Algeria and the United States, and reiterated the need to continue the positive dynamic that characterizes the bilateral partnership, especially in the economic fields.

The two parties also exchanged views on the most prominent current issues in the Arab world and the African continent, especially developments in the situation in Libya, the Sahel and the Sahara, as well as the issue of Western Sahara.

Counselor Massad Boulos’ last visit to Algeria took place last July, as part of his tour in North Africa, during which he held consultations with a number of Algerian officials, which were said to aim to enhance common priorities between the two countries, according to the statements he issued in this regard.

Last April, Massad Boulos made statements about the necessity of reaching a solution satisfactory to all parties in the Western Sahara issue, and he did not miss at that time emphasizing that the announcement by the American President, Donald Trump, of the alleged sovereignty of the Moroccan Makhzen regime over Western Sahara, “was not an absolute and final declaration, but rather the door was left open for dialogue to reach a solution that satisfies both parties,” a reversal that the Makhzen regime and its arms are trying to falsely promote.

In the same context, John Bolton, Trump’s former national security advisor, is expected to visit Algeria. He is known for his positions in strong support of the rights of the Sahrawi people to self-determination, and he has emphasized this position on more than one occasion.

Bolton’s position is adopted by many research centers in the United States of America, as well as lobbyists in Washington, as well as many politicians in the Democratic and Republican parties, which dominate the political scene in the countries of the year.

There is no consensus within the administration in the United States of America on a unified position on the issue of Western Sahara, and the position remains fluctuating depending on the political color that controls the reins of the White House. A president who comes from a Democratic background is usually less enthusiastic about supporting the propositions of the Moroccan Makhzen regime in Western Sahara, compared to a president who comes from a Republican background.

Perhaps what confirms this hypothesis is the way in which the last Democratic US President, Joe Biden, completely ignored the tweet of the Republican President who preceded him, Donald Trump, who returned to the White House, so that Joe Biden ignored Trump’s desire to place Western Sahara under the alleged sovereignty of the Moroccan Makhzen regime, outside of United Nations resolutions, a position that is rejected today by many of the Kingdom’s allies in the Western system.

M. Al-Nasser