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Algerian president to travel to France in May for state visit

2023-01-15T18:33:36.682Z


Abdelmadjid Tebboune and Emmanuel Macron agreed on Sunday to schedule the Algerian president's state visit to France "for next May".


Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron spoke during a telephone interview, and agreed on a state visit to France in May, according to the Algerian presidency.

The two presidents discussed "

questions relating to bilateral relations and the state visit of the President of the Republic to France, agreeing to schedule it for next May

," said the presidency in a press release.

In an interview with the Algerian writer Kamel Daoud published on January 11 by the weekly

Le Point

, Emmanuel Macron said he hoped to welcome Abdelmadjid Tebboune to France in 2023 to continue the work of memory and reconciliation between the two countries.

At the end of December, the Algerian president had welcomed the new

"relationship of trust"

between Paris and Algiers, four months after Emmanuel Macron's visit and announced a state visit to France in 2023, in an interview with the French daily

Le Figaro

.

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The two heads of state had relaunched bilateral cooperation in a joint declaration signed with great fanfare at the end of August, paving the way in particular for a relaxation of the visa regime granted to Algeria, in exchange for increased cooperation from Algiers. in the fight against illegal immigration.

The question poisoned the bilateral relationship after Paris had halved in the fall of 2021 the number of visas granted to Algeria, deemed not quick enough to readmit its nationals expelled from France.

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But the case was settled in mid-December when France announced, through its Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, a return to normal in the granting of visas to Algerian nationals, after a similar decision. for Tunisians and Moroccans.

The memorial question around French colonization (1830-1962) and the bloody war of liberation (1954-1962) had caused a serious quarrel between the two countries in the fall of 2021, after remarks by Mr. Macron on which he had then made amends.

Source: lefigaro

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