2023-04-23 14:07:41
On Sunday, the Algerian presidency announced in a statement that Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune will visit Paris in the second half of June, after the visit was expected in May.
And a statement issued by the presidency stated that Tebboune received today a phone call from French President Emmanuel Macron to congratulate him on Eid al-Fitr.
According to the statement, the two presidents discussed “bilateral relations and ways to enhance them, including the state visit of the President of the Republic to France, and agreed on the second half of next June as a date” for it.
The statement continued, “Work is ongoing and continuous by the two teams of the two countries to make the visit a success, which will come ten months after Macron’s state visit to Algeria, in a step to improve relations that deteriorated in the fall of 2021.”
The visit cooled the tension, but in February a new diplomatic crisis emerged due to the French consulate’s assistance in Tunisia to leave the French-Algerian activist, Amira Bouraoui, to France.
Despite a decision banning her from leaving Algeria, Bouraoui entered Tunisia on February 3, before Tunisian security stopped her while she was trying to board a flight to Paris.
She was finally able to travel to France on February 6, despite the Tunisian authorities’ attempt to deport her to Algeria.
Algeria considered that its arrival in France constitutes a “secret and illegal evacuation” that was carried out with the help of French diplomats and security personnel, and summoned its ambassador to Paris, Saeed Moussa, for consultations.
A month ago, Presidents Tebboune and Macron ended this new crisis, and “agreed to strengthen channels of communication … to prevent the recurrence of this kind of unfortunate misunderstanding,” according to the Elysee.
The Algerian ambassador returned to Paris.
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