The Prime Minister’s visit Sunday and Monday aims to establish a more fluid relationship, a month and a half after that of President Emmanuel Macron. The question of gas “will not be on the agenda”, said Matignon.
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Maintain the momentum, prevent the upturn from falling back. The visit to the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, in Algiers, Sunday October 9 and Monday October 10, aims for a very specific objective: to ward off the old demons of a Franco-Algerian relationship marked by the perpetual cycles of warming and glaciation.
This trip to the head of a substantial government delegation – fifteen ministers and a secretary of state – comes barely a month and a half after the visit of Emmanuel Macron, who had sealed the reconciliation between the two capitals after a year of acrimonious quarrel. The movement takes the place of method: nothing should authorize the dynamics reimpected by the French president and his Algerian counterpart, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, to get bogged down in the bureaucratic routine where the ambitions are usually dry.
The diplomatic format of the high -level intergovernmental committee – forum that has housed the meetings between heads of government and their ministerial teams – fell timely to prolong the momentum of Algiers declaration for a reinforced partnership , signed on August 27 between MM. Tebboune and Macron.
“friendship”, fetish term
The idea is to formalize “a” nourishing “roadmap” a dense calendar of bilateral encounters at all levels and regular deadlines “. In short, support a rate that can avoid any relapse. “We must restore a fluid and peaceful relationship,” sums up a diplomatic source.
The October 2021 crisis, provoked by Mr. Macron’s statements on the Algerian “political-military-military system” which would have “built on the hatred of France” and the “memorial rent”, has been there To impose a counter -methode: the time is for “friendship” – term that has become fetish – and “mutual respect”.
To feed it, Paris is counting on economic and energy cooperation – Elisabeth Borne and her counterpart Aymen Benabderrahmane will participate in a Franco -Algerian business forum – as well as on projects involving youth.
Also it will be necessary to remove the obstacles which had hindered during the past year the circulation of people between the two banks. France had indeed imposed a rate of refusal of 50 % on the Algerian visa requests to force Algiers to be more accommodating in the readmission on its soil of migrants in an irregular situation. The French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, will be in Algiers alongside Elisabeth Borne to try to lift her lock. If we concede, Place Beauvau, that “progress has been made by the Algerians” in terms of deliverance from a consular pass for the purposes of returning to the country of irregular migrants, the “discussions have not yet succeeded”, we specify in Matignon.
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