Bouteflika receives French minister of interior

French Minister of Interior Jean-Pierre Chevenement said that he conveyed yesterday an oral message from French President Jacques Chirac to his Algerian counterpart, Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Chevenement said, "Algeria and France must develop relations between them on base of trust and transparency to serve the future."

Chevenement described his visit as a start for lots of things and described his talks with Bouteflika as sincere for willing to under the past in a good way so that current problems are solved'.

Chevenement said after his talks with Algerian Interior Minister Abdelmalek Sallal that talks tackled issue of reopening the French consuls in Enapa and Wahran, to facilitate granting visas to Algerians, adding that the number of visas granted to Algerians increased during the first five months of the current year by 80% compared with the same period of last year.