Israeli delegation forced to change seats after Algerian opposition

An Israeli diplomatic delegation participating in a recent European conference of parliament speakers in Greece has been forced to change its location at the event, after Algerian envoys strongly protested to the organizers against the order and refused to sit behind representatives of the Tel Aviv regime.

According to a report published by the independent Algerian daily newspaper Ennahar, Israeli delegates were initially supposed to sit in front of Algerians, but had no option but to change their seats in the face of the latter's vehement opposition and threats to withdraw from the event.

Parliament speakers from the 47 Council of Europe member states, as well as many neighboring and observer countries plus other partner parliamentary assemblies, met on October 21 and 22 in Athens, on the occasion of a conference organized by the Hellenic Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

Some 60 speakers, together with 300 other delegates, participated at the biennial summit to discuss various issues.

On October 15, Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra said that the African Union (AU) Executive Council had chosen to delay a final decision on granting Israel observer status in the pan-African body until the AU summit in February 2022.

The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement later praised Algeria and two non-Arab countries of the African Union (AU), Nigeria and South Africa, for appealing against a decision by the continental body to grant observer status to the “colonial” regime in Tel Aviv.

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