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France-Algeria: the underside of a diplomatic affront

2021-04-09T18:38:00.291Z


STORY - The postponed visit of Jean Castex to Algiers testifies to a deleterious climate, despite the good understanding of Presidents Macron and Tebboune.


“Since the 1990s, the bilateral relationship has never been so bad.

Whatever the tensions between Paris and Algiers, there was always a channel that worked to regulate disputes.

It's unheard of… ”

Thursday, 7:30 pm A Franco-Algerian businessman comments on the news that has become official after several hours of rumors.

Matignon announces in a press release that the visit of the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, on Sunday in Algiers, on the occasion of the 5th session of the Franco-Algerian High Level Intergovernmental Committee (CIHN) - a sort of mini-summit between ministers of the two countries , initiated in 2012 by François Hollande to support bilateral cooperation - is

“postponed to a later date”

.

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Officially, this decision was made

"by mutual agreement between the Algerian and French authorities"

given

"the health context"

, the statement said.

But the Algerian private channel Ennahar, always well informed, gave since the middle of the afternoon

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Source: lefigaro

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