Le Matin du Sahara et du Maghreb: Algerian labor party rejects baker plan

The Algerian Labor Party (PT) rejects the new plan of United Nations Secretary General Personal Envoy, James Baker, and asserts that it is in favor of "the preservation of nations against all kinds of divisions that risks to undermine their sovereignty," PT member told a Moroccan newspaper.

Tazibt Ramdan, member of the national leadership of the Labor Party told "Le Matin du Sahara et du Maghreb" newspaper in an interview published Monday that his party is worried about the possible development of such an action, notably the isolation of territories in Maghreb states "that we want united," underlining that the party "strongly doubts that this solution serves the interest of our peoples."

Ramdan highlighted the necessity to face "this division of the world map that the American policy wants to impose because we have doubts on the intentions of this policy."

"We have to fight to resolve our differences on our own and without the help of anyone," he insisted.

The party's spokeswoman, Louiza Hanoune, had warned against The Baker Plan, noting that it is "an American plan that represents a great danger for the Maghreb region."

The Baker Plan "is likely to create great tensions and we warn against it because it is an American plan that aims to enhance division in Maghreb countries by starting by the Sahara, Rif and then Kabylie," Hanoune had told a press conference recently in Algiers.

Morocco had expressed refusal of the plan underlining that it is in contradiction with Morocco's interests.