Paris and Algiers have agreed on a visit by Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to France. The Algerian presidency announced on April 23 that this meeting should take place next June.
Emmanuel Macron and Abdelmadjid Tebboune agreed on Sunday to organize the Algerian president’s state visit to France in the second half of June, the Algerian presidency said in a press release taken up by the APS agency.
Visit in June
The Algerian head of state received a phone call from his French counterpart on the occasion of Eid el Fitr and the two presidents “discussed bilateral relations and ways to strengthen them, including the state visit of the President of the Republic in France, that they agreed to organize the second half of June, knowing that the teams of the two countries continue the work to ensure its success”, declared the Algerian presidency, quoted by APS .
In Paris, the Elysée indicated that during a telephone conversation, the two heads of state had agreed to “continue the ambitious preparatory work to make this visit a success”.
“Remove misunderstandings”
A source at the Elysée confirmed that the visit had been scheduled for June. This state visit by Abdelmadjid Tebboune, initially planned for the beginning of May, will take place after the settlement of yet another diplomatic crisis between the two countries. Algiers recalled its ambassador to France in February for consultations, accusing Paris of having pressured the Tunisian authorities to allow the departure to France of Amira Bouraoui, a journalist and French human rights activist. -Algerian, instead of extraditing her to Algeria.
Abdelmadjid Tebboune informed Emmanuel Macron at the end of March of the return of the Algerian ambassador to France during a telephone interview which “made it possible to clear up misunderstandings” on this affair, according to the terms of the Elysée.
