Editorial

France-Algeria technical cooperation
Development dialogue

Over the centuries, in a relationship unlike any other, France and Algeria have reflected many human attitudes. There has been successive or simultaneous interplay of clashing and dialogue, pushing apart and pulling together, uncertainties and common destinies.

Today, development and cooperation are being played out in a long-term approach that focuses on basic infrastructure (housing, water, drainage, transport, health), sustainable management of natural resources and an ongoing respect for the environment.

To this end, concrete projects are multiplying. They are conducted jointly by central or local government structures, consultants, agencies or public establishments, and also by a number of private companies.

House building and home ownership financing, major works (Algiers airport terminal, the east-west motorway), the challenge posed by water (in its domestic, industrial and agricultural uses) and the immense undertaking of developing the private sector (industries and services) are thus priorities for the Algerian authorities, which define and justify our action at the side of a country with whom we have such a long shared history.

Hubert Colin de Verdière,

Contents

• Development dialogue

• Feature: France-Algeria technical cooperation: France and Algeria enjoy a meaningful, long-standing relationship based on cultural and institutional, economic and commercial interchange and collaboration - a relationship that also comes within the fields of competence of the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Housing. This is evident from the many cooperation projects, particularly in the roads, housing, water, public works and airport sectors.

• Information Update: News-Events-Training sessions-Publications 

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