In New York, the charismatic leader and figurehead of the Movement for the Self-determination of Kabylia (MAK), Ferhat Mehenni, orchestrated a real masterstroke on the diplomatic scene by meeting three official representatives of the Gulf countries at the United Nations .
In addition, the head of MAK, Ferhat Mehenni, has just achieved a real diplomatic breakthrough in New York by meeting the official representatives of three of the most important Gulf countries at the United Nations.
This discreet meeting is of capital importance in Kabylia’s quest for autonomy and underlines a growing interest on the part of these countries to understand the aspirations and projects of the Kabyle people, particularly with regard to their desire for independence.
A month ago, Ferhat Mehenni announced his intention to proclaim the “rebirth of the Kabyle State” during a speech planned in New York on April 20, 2024. This announcement, broadcast via social networks, marks a major turning point in the region’s quest for autonomy.
During an intervention at the UN on April 16, Mehenni, by announcing the official proclamation of the rebirth of the Kabyle State on April 20, 2024, also pleaded for the integration of the Kabyle cause into the decolonization process of the UN. It thus marked an important step in the fight for the self-determination of Kabylia.
It is a real challenge that Ferhat Mehenni and the MAK have launched to the Algerian regime. They are advancing their cause on the international stage, while mobilizing international support for self-determination in Kabylia.
These meetings, one imagines, took the Algerian foreign intelligence services by surprise and in particular Major General Djebbar M’henna. The powerful head of the DDSE, who follows the activists in step and proclaims himself a spymaster alongside the favorite puppet of the khaki puppeteers of Algiers, saw nothing but fire. The confirmation of his meetings risks further altering the already very tense relations between Algiers and certain capitals of the region.
What a remarkable coincidence this meeting of representatives of the powerful Gulf countries with the president of the Provisional Kabyle Government (GPK), just as the Proclamation of the Kabyle State approaches before the UN. It’s almost as if the calendar had been chosen with a precision worthy of Swiss watchmaking.
Now, the big question which torments minds and hovers above our heads is to know whether Algiers will let itself be carried away by this predicted storm or whether, to the East of Eden, we will dare to play diplomatic Russian roulette by breaking off moorings with these three heavyweights from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Let us remember and with emotion the day when Algiers decided to make a face at Morocco on August 24, 2021. Ah, the agonies of diplomacy!
The president of MAK, Ferhat Mehenni, indicated that Kabylia would proclaim the rebirth of the Kabyle State on April 20, 2024 in front of the UN headquarters in New York, at the symbolic moment of 6:57 p.m., Kabylia time, reflecting the year 1857 during which Kabylia lost its sovereignty following the battle of Icheriden.
He arrived on Monday April 15, 2024 in the United States of America in anticipation of the historic event which will take place this Saturday April 20, 2024 in New York, in front of the United Nations headquarters. The president of MAK and the Kabyle provisional government, Ferhat Mehenni, immediately began political and diplomatic activities.
Invited the next day to the United Nations to participate in the most important conference on indigenous peoples, President Ferhat Mehenni spoke, to speak about the peaceful struggle for the right to self-determination in the practice of the Kabyles.
During his speech, President Ferhat Mehenni took the opportunity to raise the voice of the Kabyle people, who aspire to their independence, by evoking the dramatic situation that the tyrannical Algerian regime is subjecting Kabylia to, the systematic violation of human rights in Kabylia, as well as the arbitrariness suffered by political and opinion prisoners unjustly incarcerated for their sole crime of “kabylity”. He also did not leave out the activist Kamira Nait Sid, co-president of the Amazir World Congress, imprisoned for crimes of opinion.
Ferhat Mehenni proposed to the United Nations to institutionalize a group of expert mechanisms, so that they would be ex officio members of the fourth commission responsible for decolonization.
This meeting was also an opportunity for the Kabyle delegation, led by Ferhat Mehenni, to meet representatives of other peoples who participated in this conference and who expressed a particular interest in the Kabyle cause. An appointment is made for a diplomatic suspense episode, with guest star Mehenni, the visionary of modern Kabylia.
This article is originally published on fr.hespress.com
