France on Monday, May 12, denounced as \u201cincomprehensible\u201d and \u201cbrutal\u201d Algeria\u2019s decision to expel several French officials on temporary assignment in Algiers. French Foreign Minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot vowed a response that would be \u201cimmediate, firm, and proportionate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to French authorities, several temporary staff members at the embassy were forced to leave Algerian territory. While Paris has not disclosed the exact number, Algiers claims that around fifteen diplomats<\/strong> were expelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On May 11, the French charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires in Algiers was summoned by Algerian officials and informed of the expulsion. Algeria alleges that the officials had been deployed irregularly, without prior notification or accreditation\u2014contrary to standard diplomatic protocol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a dispatch released Sunday evening, Algeria\u2019s official news agency APS stated that \u201cno fewer than fifteen agents\u201d were carrying out diplomatic or consular duties without the required authorization. France, however, disputes that version. The Foreign Ministry (Quai d\u2019Orsay) insists that all personnel held diplomatic passports and were exempt from accreditation for missions lasting less than 90 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe departure of agents on temporary assignment is unjustified and indefensible,\u201d said Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot. \u201cThis decision serves the interests of neither Algeria nor France,\u201d he added, affirming that Paris would respond firmly to what it sees as a new escalation in tensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" France on Monday, May 12, denounced as \u201cincomprehensible\u201d and \u201cbrutal\u201d Algeria\u2019s decision to expel several French officials on temporary assignment in Algiers. French Foreign Minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot vowed a response that would be \u201cimmediate, firm, and proportionate.\u201d According to French authorities, several temporary staff members at the embassy were forced to leave Algerian territory. While […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":528904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"pays":[94],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-528931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diplomacy","8":"pays-france-europe"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528931"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=528931"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=528931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}