Prime Minister Mario Draghi is in Algiers to meet with the President of the Algerian Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
Before the bilateral event, which will be held at the Presidential Palace, the premier will visit the Martyr's Monument.
The premier's mission to Algeria, accompanied by Foreign Ministers Luigi Di Maio and Ecological Transition Roberto Cingolani,
aims to sign an initial agreement to increase gas supplies from the country which already represents 31% of our imports (according to only to Russia), but is part of a process of relaunching relations between the two countries launched after 2019, which saw the visit of Sergio Mattarella last November.
After the meeting with Tebounne - an opportunity to talk about the intergovernmental summit planned in Algiers in the coming months after the last one in Rome in 2015 - at the presidential palace Draghi will preside over the signing of an intergovernmental agreement on energy and a technical agreement between Eni - the Italian delegation also includes the CEO,
Claudio Descalzi
- and Sonatrach, the Algerian energy group.
The premier will then move to the Italian embassy in Algiers where he will meet the Italian community: there are about 200 companies with a stable presence in Algeria, engaged in the energy field but also in the sectors of infrastructure and major works.
To close the visit, a dinner with President Tebboune, after which the premier will return to Italy.