The Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Community Abroad issued a statement today, Tuesday, April 12, 2022, in which it strongly condemns the assassinations directed using advanced military weapons by the Kingdom of Morocco, outside its internationally recognized borders, against innocent civilians and nationals of three countries in the region.

The statement of the Algerian Foreign Ministry stated: “These repeated and hostile practices involve the characteristics of state terrorism, as well as fulfilling all the characteristics of extrajudicial executions… and their perpetrators must be exposed before the specialized authorities of the United Nations. These attacks on civilians through premeditated and willful killings constitute a serious and systematic violation of international humanitarian law that must be strongly condemned and deterred.”

The statement added: "The policy of fleeing forward, adopted by the Moroccan occupation force, constitutes a continuous challenge to the international legitimacy, and exposes the entire region to very dangerous developments."

In the same statement, the Algerian Foreign Ministry stressed that the impulse and adventurism that results from the expansionist goals of the Kingdom of Morocco constitutes a challenge to the United Nations Security Council as well as to the Personal Envoy of the Western Sahara, Mr.Staffan de Mistura, whose mission and pacification efforts are being severely undermined by the dangerous and repeated violations of security in the occupied desert lands and their neighbors, which would lead to serious deviations at the regional level.