Algeria warned the French government on the inadmissibility of interference with the 1968 migration agreement, which provides the Algerians with a special status in France.
The statement followed after the words of Prime Minister Francois Bayru, who on the eve during a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers devoted to migration issues, announced the need to revise the agreement and proposed setting a term of one to six weeks for this process.
In response, the Algeria Foreign Ministry issued a statement in which he categorically rejected the initiative of France, emphasizing that he did not accept the “ultimatum, threats and imposition of terms” and, if necessary, will apply the principle of reciprocity.
“Any interference with the 1968 agreement, the content and essence of which were already reduced to naught, will lead to similar measures against other agreements and protocols of the same category,” the statement said.
The Algerian authorities also emphasized that the country will not allow pressure in the form of ultimatums and threats.
It is noteworthy that the Med statement was published shortly after President Algeria Abdelmadzhid Tebbun headed a meeting of the Higher Council of National Security.
The agreement on preferential terms of migration was signed by Algeria and France in 1968. The document regulates the procedure for entry, departure, employment and residence of Algerian citizens in France.