00:01Algeria has cut diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates after years of mounting tension between the two countries.
00:09Algeria has accused Abu Dhabi of interfering in national and regional affairs and state television,
00:16saying the decision came after what it called the exhaustion of all means to preserve bilateral relations.
00:23The U.A. ambassador has been given 48 hours to leave Algeria.
00:28President Abdelmajid Tabun has repeatedly described the U.A.E. as a microstate or statelet, trying to destabilize countries across
00:36the region.
00:37The two countries are also on opposing sides of the Deakin's all-Western Sahara dispute.
00:42The U.A.E. supports Morocco's claim to sovereignty over the territory where it has a consulate while Algeria bugs
00:49the Polisario Front,
00:50which seeks an independent Western Sahara.
00:52In February, Algeria began the process of cancelling an air service agreement with the UAE that was signed in Abu
01:00Dhabi in May 2013.
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