ALGERIA: France's Hollande begins two-day visit

Record ID: 574135

  • Title: ALGERIA: France's Hollande begins two-day visit
  • Date: 19th December 2012
  • Summary: ALGIERS, ALGERIA (DECEMBER 19, 2012) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT BUILDING ALGERIAN AND FRENCH FLAGS VARIOUS OF FRENCH PRESIDENT FRANCOIS HOLLANDE'S PLANE ARRIVING HOLLANDE AND ALGERIAN PRESIDENT ABDELAZIZ BOUTEFLIKA SHAKING HANDS VARIOUS OF ALGERIAN BAND PLAYING FRENCH NATIONAL ANTHEM HOLLANDE AND BOUTEFLIKA WALKING ALGERIAN GUARD HOLDING ALGERIAN AND FRENCH FLAGS JOURNALISTS TAKING PHOTOS HOLLANDE AND BOUTEFLIKA SITTING ON COUCH WITH FRENCH FIRST LADY VALERIE TRIERWEILER VARIOUS OF CROWDS STANDING IN THE STREET, DANCING, WAVING FLAGS VARIOUS OF HOLLANDE AND BOUTEFLIKA WALKING THROUGH CROWDS OF JOURNALISTS VARIOUS OF CROWDS HOLDING ALGERIAN FLAGS, CLAPPING VARIOUS OF HOLLANDE AND BOUTEFLIKA WALKING CROWDS THROWING ROSE PETALS FROM BALCONIES HOLLANDE AND BOUTEFLIKA POSING FOR PHOTOS HOLLANDE AND BOUTEFLIKA WALKING THROUGH CROWD VARIOUS OF HOLLANDE GETTING IN CAR, LEAVING
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  • Topics: International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA81Z46BXX4V9MT8AB2TF25PFVV
  • Story Text: French President Francois Hollande kicked off a two-day visit to Algeria on Wednesday (December 19), the first visit to the former colony since his election.
    Hollande was received by his Algerian counterpart Abdelaziz Bouteflika as he exited his plane. First lady Valerie Trierweiler accompanied the socialist president on his diplomatic visit.
    The two presidents were followed by hundreds of locals, singing and waving flags, as they took a walk through the North African country's capital city.
    The Algeria visit is another step towards tightening relations between the two countries, coming a few months after Hollande became the first French president to officially recognize that Algerians were massacred at an independence rally in Paris in 1961, ending decades of silence over a police crackdown historians say may have killed more than 200 people.
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