Elisabeth Borne wants to launch “denser cooperation” with Algeria

The first day of the French Prime Minister’s visit to Algiers was marked by the signing of technical agreements and the display of a “new dynamic” in the bilateral relationship.

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The words count, especially in the tormented relationship between France and Algeria. The first day of Elisabeth Borne’s visit to Algiers, Sunday October 9, was an opportunity to exchange with her Algerian counterpart, Aymen Benabderrahmane, rhetorical kindness that speaks long on the will of the two capitals to erase the ‘Acrimony of the past year. In a press statement at the end of the fifth edition of the high -level intergovernmental committee (CINH, the diplomatic format framing the relations between the two executives), Mr. Benabderrahmane praised “the quality of the dialogue”, ” Excellent spirit “and” the unpublished and exceptional high level partnership “which flows in his eyes between Paris and Algiers.

The French Prime Minister welcomed, for her part, “the atmosphere of trust and fraternity” which marked this first day in Algiers, illustration of the “commitment” of the two countries “in the setting In work of a renewed relationship “, in order to” build more dense cooperation between France and Algeria “. According to M me terminal, the meeting of this intergovernmental committee, in which fifteen French ministers participated – some of which have signed several technical agreements – anchor “a new dynamic and a sustainable cycle which will benefit our two peoples and their youth “.

Significant detail, the two heads of government have continued to refer, in their address to journalists, to meet, at the end of August in Algiers, between presidents Abdelmadjid Tebboune and Emmanuel Macron. One way to admit that the new sketched dynamic is first and foremost the fruit of a personal relationship between MM. Tebboune and Macron and that it is now necessary to “translate into acts the vision of our heads of state”, according to the formula of M me terminal. And to admit, above all, that nothing is won if the mobilization of administrative devices on both sides does not follow. The presence of an important French ministerial delegation – to which the Algerian part was sensitive – aimed precisely to establish individual relations between those responsible for the two executives, in order to lead their respective services in their wake.

“The time of misunderstanding is behind us”

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