23 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The President of Algeria, Abdelmayid Tebune, will pay a state visit to France in mid-June, where he will meet his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, after the recent restoration of bilateral relations.
Macron and Tebune closed the open diplomatic crisis around the Algerian opposition Amira Buraui at the end of last month with the announcement of the return to Paris of the Algerian ambassador, Said Musi, called for consultations in February.
Algeria made this decision after learning that Buraui, sentenced to two years in prison in May 2021 for various charges “against the country’s national unity”, was “clandestinely exfiltrated” to France, as announced at the time by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Algerian
Tebune’s trip to France, the first since he took office in December 2019, was confirmed this Sunday by the Algerian Presidency in a statement collected by the Tout sur L’Algerie portal.
The appointment “has been arranged after a telephone conversation between the two leaders in which they discussed their bilateral relations and the means to strengthen them,” according to the official note.
