Emmanuel Macron and Abdelmadjid Tebboune signed a joint declaration aimed at relaunching the bilateral relationship between the two countries after months of diplomatic crisis, and sixty years after the end of the Algerian war.
Le Monde with AFP
The Algerian president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, signed a joint declaration on Saturday August 27 calling for an “new irreversible dynamic” in bilateral relations, sixty years after the end of the war of ‘Algeria.
President Tebboune then praised an “excellent and successful visit”, ensuring that the arrival of the French head of state in Algeria had allowed “a rapprochement which would not have been possible without the very personality of President Macron” .
mixed commission of historians
After months of diplomatic crisis, the presidents announced from the first day of Mr. Macron’s visit on Thursday, a new dynamic in the bilateral relationship. In addition to the memorial file around French colonization, the question of visas poisoned the bilateral relationship when Paris decided in the fall of 2021 to divide by two the number granted in Algeria, deemed not prompt enough to readmit its expelled nationals from France.
The signing of a joint declaration for a “renewed, concrete and ambitious partnership” was added at the last minute to Mr. Macron’s program. It will be “a new partnership for and by youth”, had anticipated the French president on Friday, announcing the acceptance of 8,000 more Algerian students this year in France, who will join an annual contingent of 30,000 young people.
It will also be a question of fighting illegal immigration while softening procedures for “families of binationals, artists, sportsmen, entrepreneurs and politicians who feed the bilateral relationship”.
A mixed commission of French and Algerian historians will also be created to “look” opposite the entire period of colonization, “without taboo”.