Courtesy visit.

Elisabeth Borne is going to Algeria on Sunday and Monday to concretize the reconciliation sealed by the presidents of the two countries at the end of August.

The Prime Minister will be accompanied by a delegation of 16 ministers and several business leaders for this trip, during which she should meet Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune according to Matignon.

This visit aims to materialize the "Declaration of Algiers for a renewed partnership", signed by French Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on August 27 at the end of a three-day visit by the French Head of State to Algeria.

Elisabeth Borne will thus be on hand to mainly discuss youth and economic cooperation.



“Emmanuel Macron has cleared the way”

The question of an increase in deliveries of Algerian gas to France, in the context of the scarcity of Russian gas in Europe, will not be "on the agenda" of the visit according to Matignon.

The sensitive subject of the memory of colonization and the war in Algeria will also be left aside.

The commission of Algerian and French historians which is to be set up to examine "without taboo" the archives of the two countries, "is still in the process of being set up", according to Matignon.

“Emmanuel Macron has cleared the way and the time is right for this kind of cooperation.

Today, we are at a turning point in the relationship, we need a certain sustainability”, analyzes Hasni Abidi, director of the Center for Studies and Research on the Arab and Mediterranean World (Cermam) in Geneva, for the AFP.

"The French president's bet is to gain the confidence of the Algerians by moving forward on issues that do not constitute great difficulties for the two parties in order to finally tackle difficult subjects, such as the migration question", adds the researcher.

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