Algerian Foreign Ministry Official Responds to the French Interior Minister

An official source at the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was inquired about the recent statement by French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau to Le Figaro newspaper, in which he announced his intention to instruct French prefectures “not to recognise passports issued by Algerian consulates to Algerian citizens to obtain residence permits.”

The source was keen to recall, first, that granting these passports is a right for Algerian citizens and that issuing them is a duty incumbent upon the sovereign Algerian state. Therefore, recognising these passports is a duty imposed upon the French state.

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