Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune will not attend a conference on Libya in France on Friday but will delegate a representative, Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra said on Wednesday. Relations between France and Algeria have been tense. Algiers early last month recalled its ambassador to Paris and closed its airspace to French military planes after what it called “irresponsible” comments attributed to French President Emmanuel Macron. Macron questioned whether there had been an Algerian nation before French colonial rule and said that Algeria’s “politico-military system” had rewrit…

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