Only the Syrians and the Algerians understand the nature of the relationship between the Levant and Algeria. The brotherly relations between the two countries since the war of independence until today have formed a common history of struggle and struggle for independence and the liberation of the Arab nation from foreign occupation. Emerging challenges.
History witnesses how Syria supported the Algerian people in their heroic struggle against the French occupier. For many years during the Algerian liberation revolution, the Syrian flag was saluted in conjunction with the Algerian national anthem.
Everyone also knows the support provided by Algeria to Syria in the October war of liberation against the Israeli enemy. Since 2011, it has stood by Syria and its people in the face of terrorism and affirmed its keenness on Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, rejecting external interference in its internal affairs, and has continued to cooperate with the Syrian state in light of a terrorist attack. Western against Damascus, in which some Arab regimes were involved.
Today, this struggle relationship is renewed under the leadership of the two countries and their keenness to strengthen bilateral relations and purify the Arab atmosphere in a way that serves the future of all Arabs.
Today, Algeria, which will host the next Arab summit, affirms its keenness to bring the Arabs together at the summit through the participation of all, including Syria, the founding member of the League, with the aim of gathering the Arabs’ word and strengthening the common Arab will in order to face collective challenges. President Bashar al-Assad said in one of his recent interviews that it might be The sole weight of this summit is that it will be held in Algeria.
The Syrian policy is consistent with Algeria’s policy of the need to reunite the dispersed Arabs and to strengthen the Arab presence in light of international changes. mutual relations and building relations that serve all Arabs and guarantee peace and security for them.
The reciprocal visits of Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad to Algeria in conjunction with its commemoration of the 60th anniversary of liberation from French colonialism, as well as the visit of Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra to Damascus yesterday and his meeting with President al-Assad constitute an important entry point for strengthening and expanding bilateral relations on the one hand, and healing the Arab rift that suffers from Divergence and divergence on the other hand.
The upcoming Arab summit in Algeria may carry good news about Syria's presence and Arab reunification after dispersal and division, especially since the Algerian minister carried a written message from President Abdel Majid Taboun to President Assad and conveyed a reply message.
Although any assurances about attendance did not leak out of the meetings, joint Arab action remains at the heart of Syrian and Algerian politics.
Today, Algeria sees that the Arab world needs Syria and not the other way around, as Minister Lamamra said, and from this point of view, the Algerian diplomacy moves ahead of the summit, and whether or not Syria attended the summit, the path back to Damascus started even slowly, and just as Damascus needs this Return, the Arabs need Damascus too.
The challenges facing the Arab countries today require a review of policies that have proven to fail, and bets that have only increased the Arabs’ dispersion and weakness, and Damascus today looks to the future and welcomes any Arab-Arab coordination or consultations to reach a unified position to face challenges. .
