Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra gestures arsenic helium reads a connection from the country's president successful Algiers, Tuesday, Aug.24, 2021. Algeria's overseas curate said Tuesday that his state is breaking diplomatic ties with Morocco "starting today," amid increasing hostility betwixt the North African neighbors. (AP Photo/Fateh Guidoum)

Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra gestures arsenic helium reads a connection from the country's president successful Algiers, Tuesday, Aug.24, 2021. Algeria's overseas curate said Tuesday that his state is breaking diplomatic ties with Morocco "starting today," amid increasing hostility betwixt the North African neighbors. (AP Photo/Fateh Guidoum) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

RABAT – Morocco’s overseas ministry said aboriginal Wednesday that the state “regrets” the “completely unjustified" determination of neighboring Algeria to interruption disconnected diplomatic relations.

Algeria formally announced the determination connected Tuesday, citing a bid of alleged hostile acts.

The determination was “expected ... successful presumption of the logic of escalation observed successful caller weeks,” Morocco's overseas ministry said successful a connection released overnight.

"Morocco categorically rejects the fallacious, adjacent absurd, pretexts underlying it,” it said.

The determination culminates a play of increasing hostility betwixt the North African countries, which are mired successful a decades-long feud, with their borders closed to each other.

The Algerian overseas curate notably denounced “massive and systematic acts of espionage” by Morocco, a notation to allegations that the kingdom’s information services utilized Israeli-made Pegasus spyware against its officials and citizens, the authoritative APS quality bureau reported. Morocco adamantly denies specified claims.

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Other disapproval ranged from reported remarks by Morocco’s U.N. ambassador successful mid-July to caller comments by Israel's overseas curate connected an historical sojourn to Morocco arsenic portion of some countries' normalization of ties.

Morocco and Israel are allies of Western nations, and the determination risked complicating diplomacy successful the region. Both are important successful the combat against extremism successful the adjacent Sahel region.

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