The date of the visit was fixed during a telephone conversation between the Algerian president and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, according to a press release from the Algerian presidency.
The Algerian presidency announced on Sunday an upcoming visit to France by Abdelmadjid Tebboune, scheduled for next May, and which will be the first of its kind since coming to power in 2019.
According to the Andalusian Agency, citing a statement from the Algerian presidency, the date of the visit was fixed during a telephone conversation held on Sunday between President Tebboune and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron.
Tebboune’s visit was long prepared by both parties. During an interview granted by Figaro, the Magazinz intelligence site declared that it is “Unpublished” that the interview granted by Abdelmadjid Tebboune to the French daily Le Figaro, is the culmination of a “communication operation which was prepared, elaborated and refined by Paris and Algiers”.
According to Anadolu Agency, Tebboune received a phone call from Macron, during which they discussed issues related to bilateral relations.
The two presidents also discussed the “state visit” that Tebboune will make to France, a visit they have set for next May, according to the same press release.
It will be Tebboune’s first such visit to France since he came to power in December 2019.
Tebboune’s first term was marked by several turmoil in relations with France, due to issues related to the colonial era (1830/1962), as well as issues relating to immigration.
Last August, the French president traveled to Algeria to “open a new page” in relations between the two countries.
President Macron’s visit to Algeria resulted in a joint statement on the agreement of the two parties on a set of agreements related to the file of memory and the French colonial past in the country, as well as cooperation in the fields security, defence, foreign policy and economy.