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Algeria: Algeria Says Envoy Will Only Return If France Shows 'Total Respect'
RFI, 11 October 2021
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has said the return of its ambassador to Paris depends on France showing it fully respects Algeria, following a row over visas and critical… Read more »
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Algerie Presse Service, 2 October 2021
Algeria expressed Saturday its "categorical rejection of the unacceptable interference in its internal affairs," following the unrefuted statements that several French sources… Read more »
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Algeria: Angry Algeria Recalls Ambassador to France for Consultations
RFI, 3 October 2021
Algeria has recalled its ambassador to France for consultations after what it called "irresponsible" comments attributed to French President Emmanuel Macron, Algeria's presidency… Read more »
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Algeria: Govt Closes Airspace to French Military Planes - Report
RFI, 3 October 2021
According to French newspaper Le Figaro, France no longer has the right to fly its military aircraft over Algerian territory. Paris uses Algerian airspace on… Read more »
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Algeria: Foreign Minister Urges France to Decolonise Its History
RFI, 6 October 2021
Algeria's foreign minister Ramtane Lamamra added another layer to the diplomatic spat between his country and France when he suggested that France take stock of its imperialist… Read more »
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Algeria: Return of Algeria's Ambassador to Paris Conditioned By 'Total Respect of Algerian State'
Algerie Presse Service, 10 October 2021
President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune affirmed Sunday, in Algiers, that the return of Algeria's ambassador to Paris is conditioned by the "total respect of the Algerian… Read more »
Further Strain On Relations Between Algeria, France
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has said the return of its ambassador to Paris depends on France showing it fully respects his country. Algeria recalled its envoy to Paris and earlier banned French military planes from its airspace.
The moves came after a bitter row over visas, and comments attributed to President Emmanuel Macron in the newspaper Le Monde, that Algeria's rulers had rewritten the history of colonisation based on "a hatred of France".
Algeria's Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra during a trip to Mali, suggested that France take stock of its imperialist past. "They need to free themselves of certain attitudes, certain behaviours, certain visions which are intrinsically linked to the incoherent logic driven by the west's claimed mission to bring civilisation," he said on Mali TV.
President Macron said last week that he hoped diplomatic tensions with Algeria would soon ease, telling France Inter radio that he had "truly cordial" relations with the Algerian president. But relations between the two countries are currently spiralling downwards.
