The Algerian Minister of Labor and Social Security, Hachemi Djaâboub, described France as “
an eternal and traditional enemy
” of Algeria during an oral questioning session in the Senate on Thursday April 8, reports the website of TSA information.
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While a senator questioned him about the deficit of the national pension fund, Hachemi Djaâboub took France for example: "
as regards the deficit of the CNR, I would like to say that all the pension funds in the world suffer.
I can give some figures that can be checked on the internet: our traditional and eternal enemy, France, has a deficit of 44.4 billion euros in its pension fund
”, the minister of Job.
An exit all the more surprising as the Franco-Algerian relations seemed to calm down lately.
"
We currently have no problem with France
", declared himself on April 2 the Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, questioned on the report delivered by the French historian Benjamin Stora aiming at the reconciliation of the memories between France and France. Algeria.
The Algerian president thus qualified the bilateral relations as "
good
".
Castex visit postponed
Hachemi Djaâboub's words come at the same time the Chief of Staff of the French Armies, General François Lecointre, was received in Algiers by the Chief of Staff of the National People's Army (ANP) Saïd Chanegriha for an unannounced trip during which the Algerian military requested assistance from Paris for the
“rehabilitation”
of the sites of the French nuclear tests carried out in the Sahara 60 years ago.
This visit was a preamble to that initially planned for Sunday by Jean Castex.
Officially postponed for health reasons, the visit of the French Prime Minister was also postponed for diplomatic reasons.
"
The format of the delegation is not up to par
" according to Algiers, said a French source familiar with the matter.
Jean Castex was to co-chair with his counterpart Abdelaziz Djerad a
“high-level intergovernmental committee”
for the first time since December 2017. Several subjects had to be addressed - economic, security, education, culture - and agreements signed, the services of the first indicated. French minister.
