The French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne went to Algeria for a “visit aimed at concretizing the partnership concluded between the chiefs of the two states in late August”.
Accompanied by fifteen ministers, the French Prime Minister arrived in Algiers yesterday for a visit also intended for reconciliation initiated in August by the presidents of the two countries.
Élisabeth Borne was greeted by her a counterpart amebderrahmane and started her visit by depositing a wreath at the monument of martyrs, a high place of the Algerian memory of the War of Independence (1954-1962) against France, as well as the Saint-Eugène cemetery in Algiers, where a number of French people born in Algeria rest in Algeria.
Élisabeth borne will co-reside, with her Algerian counterpart, the fifth session of the high-level intergovernmental committee (CINH).
Elisabeth Borne and Aïmene Benabderrahmane chaired a meeting of the high -level intergovernmental committee yesterday (CINH), whose last edition dates back to 2017, where it was mainly a question of economic cooperation.
The meeting led to the signing of a dozen texts, “declarations of intention” on employment, industrial cooperation, tourism and crafts, or disability, “partnership agreement” in the agricultural field, “Agreement Memorandum” on start-ups.
After a year of frost in relations between Algiers and Paris, they warmed up following Macron’s visit to Algeria towards the end of last August.
Elisabeth Borne’s visit is part of this warming of bilateral relations, but intervenes in a context of the energy crisis facing Europe following the war between Russia and Ukraine.
A possible increase in Algerian gas deliveries in the direction of France, in the midst of an energy crisis will probably be on the agenda even if this file “is not on the agenda” of this visit, according to Matignon.
Ms. Borne said to TSA wishing to “nevertheless continue to develop our partnership in this sector with Algeria, particularly in terms of LNG, and to increase the efficiency of its gas production capacities”.
