Algeria FM says country supports anti-IS coalition

Algeria’s Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra said on Tuesday in Ottawa, Canada that his country supports US-led international coalition against IS.

Lamamra did however denied any plans to take part in the ongoing operations in Iraq and Syria.

Algeria’s top diplomat explained that “our doctrine of non-alignment doesn’t allow us (Algeria) to accept hosting foreign bases on our territory nor leave our troops take part in missions outside our borders.”

He also acknowledged that the international military intervention against IS had become “inevitable,” warning however, that it should not “become a humanitarian catastrophe for the people in Syria, which could lead them to see in terrorism a lesser evil compared to the international coalition bombardment.”