French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that he wants to build the future of Franco-Algerian relations by confronting a painful colonial past but also focusing on future challenges, Reuters reported.
“We have a complicated, painful shared past. And sometimes it prevents us from looking to the future,” Macron said after meeting with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune during his first three-day visit to the North African country.
He said a joint committee would be formed with historians from Algeria and France to study the archives of the colonial period of both sides.
French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Algeria on Thursday for a three-day official visit, which aims to “restore” bilateral relations and which for Algeria means recognition of its strategic importance in the region.
This visit is timed to the 60th anniversary of the end of the war and the declaration of independence of Algeria in 1962.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Algeria, Africa’s first gas producer and one of the world’s first, has been in high demand from Europeans under pressure to reduce dependence on Russian gas.
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