Bolaños assures that the Government and the EU are working to restore relations with Algeria "as soon as possible"

MADRID, 13 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños, reported this Monday that the Government and the institutions of the European Union are working to restore relations with Algeria "as soon as possible", after the Maghreb country announced the suspension of the friendship treaty with Spain due to the change of position regarding Western Sahara.

In a press conference from the Spanish embassy to the Holy See, in Rome after being received in a private audience by Pope Francis, Bolaños pointed out that the Government's position regarding Algeria had been set by the Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares , after traveling to Brussels last Friday and that both the Government and the EU want normal diplomatic relations with this country to be restored as soon as possible.

Thus, he has indicated that they hope that the treaty of friendship and good neighborliness between Algeria and Spain, which has been suspended since last week, "continues". The Government of Algiers made the decision to put it on hold shortly after the appearance of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in the Congress of Deputies, where he had to give an account of the consequences of the agreement with Morocco and the change of position on the Sahara. An intervention in which Sánchez barely mentioned Algeria.

"What the Government and the European institutions are going to do is work continuously so that commercial, economic, cultural and all kinds of relations with Algeria are restored as soon as possible," Bolaños pointed out when asked about the developments in the conflict with the neighboring country, to which we are united by common interests on both shores of the Mediterranean, as he underlined.