Sánchez assures that he "would love" to travel to Algeria

MESEBERG (ALEMANIA), 30 Aug. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, acknowledged on Tuesday that he "would love" to be able to travel to Algeria at a time when the diplomatic crisis caused by his decision to support the Moroccan autonomy plan for the Sahara is still open.

"I would love to be the one to go to Algeria," said Sánchez during the press conference with the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, after participating in a meeting of the German government at the Meserberg castle, on the outskirts of Berlin.

Sánchez thus responded to the question of whether he or Scholz plan to travel soon to the North African country, which French President Emmanuel Macron visited last week.

In recent months, Algeria has been the subject of growing interest from the EU and its member states for its potential in terms of hydrocarbons at a time when Europeans are looking for alternatives to the gas and oil that Russia has supplied until now.

In addition to Macron, the Italian Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, has also passed through Algiers in recent months, who closed an agreement to increase the supply of Algerian gas to Italy through the existing gas pipeline between the two countries.

In the case of Spain, Algeria was until a few months ago the main supplier of gas but after the crisis that broke out in March this trend has been reversed.

The Algerian government proceeded to call its ambassador in Madrid for consultations on March 19, one day after Morocco disclosed Sánchez's letter to Mohamed VI in which he stated that the autonomy plan presented in 2007 was "the a more solid basis" for a solution to the Sahara conflict.

Algeria went a step further and last June suspended the Treaty of Friendship, while also announcing the freezing of commercial operations, the latter measure that would have been revoked at the end of July, although Spanish exporters are still encountering obstacles to get their products to the North African country.

In this time, both Sánchez and the rest of the Government have repeated every time they have been asked their desire to have "the best relations" with Algeria and have stated that it is not exclusive to maintain a good relationship of friendship and neighborliness with Morocco to have it. also with Algiers.