Jacques Serais, edited by Thibault Nadal
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07:45, August 28, 2022
Emmanuel Macron is back in Paris. He ended his visit to Algeria this Saturday after three days there. The French president who, just before returning to France, signed with his counterpart Abdelmajid Tebboune a joint declaration “for a renewed partnership” between the two countries.
This visit by Emmanuel Macron to Algeria will have had the merit of reviving the relationship between Paris and Algiers. The diplomatic quarrel between the two countries seems well and truly forgotten as the French and Algerian presidents have multiplied the marks of kindness during these three days. Like Emmanuel Macron on Saturday just before returning to France.
“Today we have written words and signed words and here I want to tell you, dear President, how much this owes you. We have the same stubbornness to succeed together because we have the same conviction that deep down, the relationship is not just a simple bilateral relationship like the others, it is a relationship of deep intimacy for Algeria, for France and for our two countries”, he declared, addressing his counterpart, Abdelmajid Tebboune.
Several strategic points discussed
The joint declaration lays the foundations. The two presidents undertake to meet every two years within the framework of a “high cooperation council”. This document also records in black and white the creation of a joint commission of historians to work on the colonial period and the Algerian war.
The irregular situation of Algerians in France not resolved
But concretely on the most sensitive issues, such as that of visas granted by France or the question of the readmission to their country of Algerian nationals in an irregular situation on our territory, no clear and quantified commitment has been made. Only a promise formulated in diplomatic language: “The two parties agree to engage in reflection to build solutions”.
Three days of visits and the presence of six ministers will therefore not have been enough.