Algeria did not oppose the Storm of Resolve war !

Arab League issued a statement for the Arab Foreign Ministers meeting, but it did not carry an opposition from Algeria over the Storm of Resolve that is led by Saudi Arabia, Arab and Muslim countries, against Houthi group in Yemen.

Algeria Foreign Minister, Ramtane Lamamra,  said the Algerian army will not participate in any military missions outside its borders.

There were information on the reservation of three Arab countries, including Algeria, in the statement of the Arab Foreign Ministers about Yemen, but the final statement did not refer only to the reservation of two countries, namely Iraq and Lebanon, which expressed their rejection of military intervention in Yemen.

According to the Arab League statement: "The Ministerial Council of the League of Arab States, expresses its blessing and support of the military action by the coalition to defend the legitimacy of Yemen, which consists of the Arab Gulf States Council, and a number of Arab and Islamic countries, at the invitation of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, President of the Republic of Yemen."

Based on the Arab League statement in support for the "Storm of Resolve", the joint Arab Defense Treaty, and the Charter of the Arab League, and the Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, the league hopes these military actions will lead to the restoration of security and stability in Yemen, led by a constitutional legitimacy, and to address all attempts of Houthi group and with the support of foreign parties aiming to threaten Yemen, the region, the Arab national security, and the threat to international peace and security, through the confiscation of Yemen will and stir strife and sedition to dismantle the social and national unity."

According to information which is leaked from the corridors of the Arab League, Ramtane Lamamra did not agree on the statement only after a meeting with his Saudi counterpart, Saud al-Faisal, and Egyptian Sameh Shoukry, what indicates that Algeria has suffered "great embarrassment" before agreement on the statement.

However, the intervention of "Riyadh" and "Cairo" to soften the Algerian position, did not achieve more than the approval on the statement, or rather toleration, so that Lamamra soon confirmed Algeria's refusal to participate in any military action, outside its soil borders, in line with what the Constitution, throwing the ball in the net of the Arab states which constitutions allow their armies to operate outside its borders.

It seemed clear that Algeria was subject to large pressure, making it keen to have an average position, but without ignoring the well-established principles on the non-interference in other countries' internal affairs, which was expressed by Algeria Foreign Minister who said: "Algeria is with the peaceful solution because it believes that it should not send its troops out of bounds, but we will participate through the training, processing, finance and other logistical matters in the promotion and protection of Arab national security without the presence of Algerian forces outside the Algerian border."

Algeria is aware that the leniency in the case of Yemen, will end up to compromising its position that it had already rejected, and even turned down in the Arab world and at the United Nations level, as it is represented in the Egyptian efforts for military intervention in Libya, and therefore it stressed the need to exhaust all means of dialogue, before heading to other options, as stated by Lamamra: "If of these things and means failed to assist in the solution, it is necessary to think about the exploitation of our tools that are available in the Charter of the Arab League and the United Nations, like the peacekeeping forces."