Algeria and France are accelerating the thaw of their relations, which have been hit by an unprecedented cold snap, following controversial statements by the French president on colonization and the Algerian system.
Recalled by Algiers on Saturday, October 2, the very day of the revelation of the remarks made by Emmanuel Macron on Thursday, September 30 during a meeting on memory at the Elysee Palace, the Algerian ambassador in Paris Mohamed Antar Daoud officially returned to his post-Thursday January 6.
“He is coming back, yes, it is good news”, declared this Friday, January 7, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian who underlined that Algeria and France have had in recent months “some misunderstandings”. “It has happened before, there have always been difficulties at one time or another but we have always been able to resolve them”, he declared on BFMTV-RMC.
” Good news “
The French foreign minister explained that Algeria and France have decided to relaunch their partnership, which has been severely affected in recent years by political tensions, which peaked in early October, with Macron’s remarks and the recall by Alger by Mohamed Antar Daoud.
“I was received at length by President Tebboune,” explained Mr. Le Drian. We are in a desire to relaunch the partnership with Algeria”.
The French minister once again pleaded for the resumption of discussions between the two countries. “We have a common history made up of complexity and suffering, we must go beyond that and together resume the path of discussions,” he added.
The return of Mohamed Antar Daoud to Paris was recorded during the surprise visit Wednesday, December 8 to Algiers by French Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian. This visit had allowed Algiers and Paris to begin the thaw in their relations.
These remarks by the French president, who questioned the existence of the Algerian nation before French colonization, and described the Algerian system as politico-military which exploits the memorial rent, had plunged relations between the two countries in a glacial cold.
