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PARIS (Reuters) – Algeria’s ambassador to France will return to Paris in the coming days, French President Emmanuel Macron’s Elysee administrative center said on Friday, in a switch signalling a recovery in kin a month after a diplomatic spat.
The Elysee palace said that during a phone conversation, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune had told Macron that the ambassador would return.
In February, Algeria recalled its ambassador to Paris, accusing France of orchestrating the dart of an activist it desires for arrest and triggering a original disaster between the countries after months of warming kin.
Amira Bouraoui, a rights activist detained during the 2019 mass protests in Algeria and freed from reformatory in 2020, had allegedly crossed into Tunisia illegally after evading Algerian judicial surveillance, according to Algerian and French media.
She turned into as soon as arrested in Tunisia in early February but turned into as soon as later allowed to waft to France, French media safe reported.
“The 2 heads of voice safe discussed the conditions of the departure from Tunisia and arrival in France… of a franco-algerian national … this dialogue has cleared up misunderstandings,” the Elysee statement said.
It added that following Macron’s seek the advice of with to Algeria final August, the presidents agreed on the need to boost cooperation between the 2 countries in every save, with a glimpse to a future voice seek the advice of with to France by Tebboune.
(Reporting by GV De Clercq; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta, William Maclean)