The French President will visit Algeria next Thursday to restore relations

Emmanuel Macron.

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The Elysee Palace announced yesterday that French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Algeria from 25 to 27 August with the aim of reviving the partnership between the two countries after months of tension.

A statement by the French presidency issued after a phone call between Macron and his Algerian counterpart, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, said that this visit will contribute to deepening bilateral relations in the future, strengthening French-Algerian cooperation in facing regional challenges and continuing to work on the memory of the “colonial period.”

Macron's office said the president had accepted an invitation from his Algerian counterpart, Abdelmadjid Tebboune.

This will be Macron's second official visit to Algeria, which has close trade relations with Paris.

Algeria, thanks to its large reserves of natural gas, has become the focus of the European Union's efforts to reduce imports from Russia.

Relations between Paris and Algeria deteriorated last year after Macron accused Algeria of perpetuating the "memory revenue" policy on the war of independence and questioned the existence of an "Algerian nation" before French colonialism.

Algeria recalled its ambassador to France at the time, to return later, while it seemed that the two countries had restored relations.

Algeria gained its independence from France in 1962 after an eight-year war between the Algerian revolutionaries and the French army that ended with the signing of the historic Evian Accords.

On July 5 of the same year, days after 99.72% of the participants voted in a referendum in favor of independence, Algeria was finally freed from colonial rule.

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