The French prime minister, Elisabeth Borne, will travel to Algeria on October 9 and 10 to finalize with her Algerian counterpart Aïmene Benabderrahmane, in an intergovernmental committee, the “association” concluded between the presidents of both countries at the end of August, announced this Matignon saturday. .
“In line with the Algiers Joint Declaration for a renewed partnership between Algeria and France”, adopted on the occasion of the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron at the end of August, “members of the French and Algerian governments will meet to reaffirm their determination to promote friendship between France and Algeria, and deepen bilateral cooperation in areas of common interest”, according to this source.
Possible increase in gas deliveries
Announcements will be made “soon” about a possible increase in deliveries of Algerian gas to France, in the midst of an energy crisis fueled by the war in Ukraine, the government spokesman, Olivier Véran, also specified, the day after the visit of ‘Emmanuel Macron to Algeria. , who was pleased that Algiers is helping to “diversify” Europe’s gas supply.
Elisabeth Borne, accompanied by several members of the French government, will co-chair, “with her Algerian counterpart Aïmene Benabderrahmane, the fifth session of the high-level intergovernmental committee” (CIHN), Matignon said.
“The youth of both countries” will be on the menu of this high-level intergovernmental committee, “which will also allow progress on economic and ecological transition issues,” Matignon points out.
Relaunch of bilateral ties
“A renewed, concrete and ambitious partnership”: after months of crisis, Emmanuel Macron and his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune had engraved in stone on August 27, in a joint declaration, the relaunch of bilateral ties, at the end of a visit of three days of the French Head of State in Algeria. But now it must be accompanied by concrete actions.
The Algerian president had mentioned, during this visit, the relaunch of various intergovernmental committees, including the CIHN, the Franco-Algerian joint economic committee, the Algerian-French strategic dialogue committee and “an intensification of high-level visits”. It was also planned to “intensify cooperation at all levels and trade.”
During this visit, the two leaders also paved the way for a relaxation of the visa regime granted to Algeria, in exchange for greater cooperation from Algiers in the fight against illegal immigration.
On the sensitive issue of the memory of colonization and war in Algeria, a commission of Algerian and French historians should also be created to examine the archives of the two countries “without taboos”.
Source: BFM TV
