Former Algerian Foreign Minister Lakhdar Brahimi has called for the reopening of the land border between Algeria and Morocco.
Algerian media reported Brahimi saying earlier today that the differences between the two neighbours constitute a major obstacle in the construction of the Maghreb Union.
“Algeria and Morocco should leave their differences aside and develop economic relations,” he said, adding that “a majority of important bilateral cooperation projects have been hampered between Algeria and Morocco.”
Algeria shut its land border with Morocco in 1994 after Rabat imposed visa regulations on Algerian visitors in the wake of a terrorist attack on the Atlas Asni Hotel in Marrakech. At the time, Morocco suspected Algiers was behind the bombing.