Hommam Al Nassim 
The first consultative meeting was held in Tunis between Tunisian President Kais Saied, Algerian Abdelmadjid Tebboune, and the President of the Presidential Council of the State of Libya, Mohamed Younes Al-Menfi.
The summit, the first of its kind, comes at a time when the Maghreb region is witnessing a growing political stalemate.
According to a statement issued by the presidency of the Republic of Tunisia, the aim of the meeting is to crystallize a new Maghreb bloc, where the presidents of Tunisia, Algeria and the president of the Libyan Presidential Council were invited to participate in this meeting, which aims to strengthen political, economic and security cooperation between the three countries.
The meeting follows an agreement reached on the sidelines of the gas summit in Algeria at the beginning of March, where it was agreed to hold a tripartite Maghreb meeting every three months, the first meeting is scheduled to be in Tunisia.
While the initiative seeks to activate regional cooperation in the region, it has faced criticism from some Moroccan media, which accused Algeria of trying to form an alliance against the kingdom.
For his part, the Algerian foreign minister defended the initiative, stressing that it aims to fill the current vacuum within the framework of the Arab Maghreb Union, which has not carried out any activity for years.
The Arab Maghreb Union was founded in Marrakech in 1989 with the aim of strengthening ties between Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Tunisia, and Libya, but political tensions between some member states, especially with regard to the conflict in Western Sahara, have led to the suspension of several initiatives and the absence of any summit meetings since 1994.
Despite the absence of the Kingdom of Morocco from this meeting, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune stressed that the new bloc is not directed against any party, noting that the door is open to all countries in the region and their neighbors in Morocco.
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