FRANCE-ALGERIA Algerian prime minister meets Hollande at Franco-Algerian summit in Paris

Record ID: 574406

  • Title: FRANCE-ALGERIA Algerian prime minister meets Hollande at Franco-Algerian summit in Paris
  • Date: 4th December 2014
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (DECEMBER 4, 2014) (AGENCY POOL) ****WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VARIOUS OF REPUBLICAN GUARDS IN ELYSEE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE COURTYARD FRENCH AND EUROPEAN FLAGS REPUBLICAN GUARDS FLAGS / ENTRANCE TO ELYSEE PALACE CAR CARRYING FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER LAURENT FABIUS ARRIVING FABIUS ENTERING ELYSEE REPUBLICAN GUARD FABIUS AND FRENCH PRESIDENT FRANCOIS HOLLANDE INSIDE ELYSEE VARIOUS OF CAR CARRYING ALGERIAN PRIME MINISTER ABDELMALEK SELLAL ARRIVING VARIOUS OF SELLAL SHAKING HANDS WITH HOLLANDE, POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS SELLAL AND HOLLANDE ENTERING ELYSEE VARIOUS OF HOLLANDE, SELLAL, FABIUS AND MEMBERS OF DELEGATIONS AT BREAKFAST JOURNALISTS LEAVING MEETING ROOM
  • Embargoed: 19th December 2014 12:00
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  • Location: France
  • Country: France
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA2DYBRF0S5AE1Z7WCW3UIT7UXC
  • Story Text: Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal arrived in Paris on Thursday (December 4) for a two-day Franco-Algerian summit hosted by Prime Minister Manuel Valls, starting with a breakfast with French President Francois Hollande also attended by Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius.
    The two countries are expected to sign a series of accords during the summit aiming at tightening the relationship between France and its former colony.
    Foreign affairs could also be high on the agenda as Algeria's military announced in November it had killed a militant involved in the abduction and beheading of French tourist Herve Gourdel in September.
    The Frenchman's kidnapping was one of the first abductions of a foreigner by militants in Algeria since the North African country ended a decade-long war with Islamist fighters in the 1990s, when around 200,000 people were killed.
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