"This trip will contribute to deepening the bilateral relationship looking towards the future for the benefit of the populations of the two countries, to strengthen Franco-Algerian cooperation in the face of regional issues and to continue the work of healing memories", declared the French presidency. .
The French president and his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune discussed this visit during a telephone conversation on Saturday.
Emmanuel Macron thanked his interlocutor for his "invitation to visit Algeria".
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He also presented "his condolences to President Tebboune, to all the Algerian people and to the families and loved ones of the victims of the terrible fires of the last few days".
The gigantic fires that ravaged northern Algeria on Wednesday and Thursday killed 37 people, according to an official report.
Those fires were nearly all extinguished on Saturday, firefighters said.
"The Head of State informed his counterpart of France's availability to provide Algeria with land and air resources to deal with it," said the Elysée.
Emmanuel Macron will make his second trip as president to Algeria from Thursday to Saturday, after a visit of a dozen hours in December 2017 at the start of his first five-year term.
He will travel to Algiers and Oran (west), said the Elysée.
This trip comes at the end of a sequence loaded with symbols with the 60th anniversary of the Evian Accords (March 18, 1962), which put an end to more than seven years of war between Algerian insurgents and the French army, and the independence of Algeria (July 5, 1962) after 132 years of French colonization.
Paris and Algiers hope to turn the page on a series of misunderstandings and tensions that culminated in the recall of the Algerian ambassador in October 2021 after remarks by the French president on the Algerian "politico-military" system and the Algerian nation .
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