After several months of crisis, this trip should contribute, among other things, “to deepen the bilateral relationship”, announced the Elysée on Saturday.
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A visit intended to relaunch the partnership between the two countries, after several months of crisis. French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Algeria from Thursday August 25 to Saturday August 27, the Elysee Palace announced on Saturday August 20. During a telephone interview with his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune, “Ihe President of the Republic thanked his counterpart for his invitation to visit Algeria”, specifies the Elysée.
“The conversation between the two presidents focused in particular on the preparation of this trip, which will contribute to deepening the bilateral relationship looking to the future for the benefit of the populations of the two countries, to strengthening Franco-Algerian cooperation in the face of regional issues and to continue the work of healing memories”, added the French presidency on Saturday.
On June 18, the French and Algerian leaders expressed, during a telephone conversation, their will “to deepen” relations between the two countries, announced the Algerian presidency. A desire for reconciliation after a serious diplomatic crisis at the beginning of last fall.
The tone had risen at the end of September, when France decided to tighten the conditions for obtaining visas with regard to Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. A reaction to the “refusal” of these three countries to issue the consular passes necessary for the return of nationals expelled from France.
Algiers then recalled its ambassador to Paris, in reaction to comments by Emmanuel Macron affirming that Algeria, after its independence in 1962 following 132 years of French colonization, had been built on “a memorial annuity” maintained by “the politico-military system”. The French president had also criticized “a completely rewritten official history” by Algiers and “a discourse based on a hatred of France”. The ambassador finally returned to France on January 6.