Special Envoy to Algiers
(with Adam Arroudj)
Emmanuel Macron began a delicate three-day
"friendship"
visit to Algeria on Thursday, where he was welcomed by the president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, in the hope of turning the page after a period of estrangement and making progress in what he calls the
"refounding"
of the ties between the two countries.
Accompanied by a large delegation including Ministers Bruno Le Maire, Catherine Colonna, Sébastien Lecornu, Gérald Darmanin and Rima Abdul Malak, as well as General Thierry Burkhard, Chief of the Defense Staff, and around fifty guests, the Head of State affirmed at the presidential palace of el-Mouradia that Algeria is, for France,
"a country essential by the common past, the shared present and the future challenges".
On the very sensitive issue of visas and deportations to the border, the president undertook to
"simplify and clarify the mobility framework"
between Algeria and France
.
Referring to a
“new partnership for the future”,
he also…
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