8,700 kilometers from Paris, Emmanuel Macron intends to benefit from his go to to Madagascar on Thursday, April 23 and Friday, April 24, to reaffirm the French presence within the Indian Ocean, an area more and more coveted by the neighboring powers. He will attend Thursday on the fifth summit of the Indian Ocean Commission (COI), which brings collectively, along with France below the assembly, the Comoros, Madagascar, Maurice and the Seychelles. If the official theme is meals safety within the area, it must also be a chance to deal with the territorial litigation inherited in inheritance in colonization in a roughly subsidy.
The Malagasy president, Andry Rajoelina, has made the restitution of the Eparses islands certainly one of his priorities, repeating his requirement in a relentless method throughout his official visits to Paris since his election in 2019. This rosary of small islands, positioned within the Canal du Mozambique, has been claimed for greater than half a century by the Malagasy. Remaining French after the nation’s independence in 1960, it permits France to have a strategic place on a significant worldwide commerce route, between southern Africa, Middle East and Asia.
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