Algeria: Relations with France are looking good
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The Algerian foreign minister indicated Algeria's readiness to hold a dialogue between Mali and West African countries.
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The Algerian Foreign Minister during a TV interview with France 24 (France 24)
Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra considered that French-Algerian relations are "in an upward phase", after the rupture in relations following controversial statements by French President Emmanuel Macron.
In an interview with Radio France Friday, Lamamra did not rule out the possibility that Algeria might once again allow French military planes to fly over its territory.
On the sidelines of his participation in the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, the foreign minister revealed that Presidents Abdelmajid Tebboune and the French president share good relations on a personal level and although they share trust, are not enough to cover up existing problems.
Macron had made several controversial, shocking, and unprecedented statements last October toward Algeria and its President, whom he accused of being influenced by those around him despite the good relations Macron said he had with his Algerian counterpart.
At the time, Tebboune considered Macron's statements -whereby he questioned the existence of an Algerian nation before French colonialism- as "extremely dangerous", stressing that no people's history should be messed with, and the Algerians should not in any way be humiliated.
France announces opening Algerian war judicial archives
In December, France's Ministry of Culture announced the opening of public archives related to legal cases and police investigations about the Algerian war, according to the French Official Gazette.
The Ministry's decree allows access to all "public archives produced in the context of cases relating to acts committed in connection with the Algerian war between 1 November 1954 and 31 December 1966."
For 75 years, access to these documents was not allowed without permission.
