The head of the Algerian army, Saïd Chanegriha, and his French counterpart, General François Lecointre, spoke on Thursday in Algiers about the dossier of nuclear tests carried out by France in the Sahara sixty years ago.
This visit was not announced on the official agendas.
But it was held, unlike the Franco-Algerian intergovernmental committee, which should have led Prime Minister Jean Castex to Algiers on Sunday, but was adjourned at the last moment.
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There were many subjects on which the two Chiefs of Staff could usefully address.
Terrorism in the Sahel, the situation in Libya and Western Sahara are not the least hot.
But, while a spokesperson for the French general staff was content to evoke the "
potential
" of bilateral military cooperation, it is this old nuclear issue that the Algerian party has publicly put on the table.
According to the Algerian press, this same file should also have been on the menu of discussions of
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