The French president announced on Friday the creation of a mixed commission of historians to iron out the disagreements over the memory issue, which had strained relations last fall.
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After the tensions, the reconciliation. The Algerian and French presidents, Abdelmadjid Tebboune and Emmanuel Macron, signed on Saturday August 27 in Algiers a joint declaration calling for a “new irreversible dynamic” in bilateral relations, 60 years after the end of the Algerian war. It is the realization of a “renewed, concrete and ambitious partnership”announced the Elysée on Friday.
In an exchange with journalists, the Algerian president hailed a “Excellent and successful visit” of her French counterpart, assuring that she “has allowed a rapprochement which would not have been possible without the very personality of President Macron”. According to him, the two countries will also “to act together in many areas outside of Algeria and France”.
For “enhance their political dialogue”Paris and Algiers will set up a “High Cooperation Council” at the level of Heads of State, in order “to deepen, in a spirit of mutual trust and respect, appropriate responses to bilateral, regional and international issues”, foresees the declaration of Algiers. This “new privileged partnership” signed on saturday “provides a framework for designing a common vision and a closely concerted approach to face new global challenges (global and regional crises, climate change, preservation of biodiversity, digital revolution, health…)”is it written in the text.
For the French president, this text will make it possible to ensure that “Intimacy is strengthened by having a permanent dialogue on all subjects. Including the subjects that prevented us from moving forward, because they kept coming back. Memory for example”. The memorial question around French colonization (1830-1962) had sparked tensions between the two countries last fall. The joint commission of historians announced Thursday by Emmanuel Macron to iron out disagreements and confront “with courage” the past, in the words of the French president, “could be installed within 15 to 20 days”announced Abdelmadjid Tebboune.