Algerian presidency clarified Tuesday that a member state of the Security Council had rejected the candidacy of former Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtan Lamamra for the position of the Secretary-General’s special envoy to Libya, out of “reservations by some regimes that have no interest in solving the problem of the Libyan people.”
A spokesman for the Algerian presidency, Mohannad Oussaid Belaid, said in a press conference that a nomination for Lamamra was rejected by a member state of the Security Council, adding that “nothing can be done in Libya without the consent of Algeria.”
According to the Algerian News Agency, Belaid pointed out that Lamamra said in statements that he did not ask for the position, but that he was nominated by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and the spokesman considered that his withdrawn candidacy represented “failure of the Secretary-General.”
Belaid pointed out that President Abdelmajid Tebboune’s statements that said Algeria had regained its regional role “may have bothered some countries and regimes.”
The official spokesman of the Algerian presidency concluded that his country would not be affected by those who do not want it to play its full regional role.
Lamamra withdrew his candidacy for the post of Special Envoy to Libya after the United States was threatening to use veto to prevent the passage of his appointment.
