Antanarivo, Madagascar – French President Emmanuel Macron began a two -day visit to Madagascar on Wednesday, and spoke of the need to find a new market in the country and increase economic cooperation in the region.
The Macron’s visit was first identified by a French leader in the former colony on the east coast of Africa since Jack Chirak in the 21st.
The tour also discovered the dispute between countries derived from the Colon Poetry era, including Madagascar claims that a small island of the French regions claim that France returned a local king killed by the French Colon Polynial forces in the late 1800s.
Macron met Madagascar President Andrea Rajoelina in the capital Antanarivo, and they signed a number of agreements and compromises, including power, agriculture and education.
Macron has been planned for almost a decade, funding from the French Development Agency for the construction of a hydropower dam in East Madagascar and LOAN from the French Treasury.
Macron is scheduled to attend a summit of the Indian Ocean Commission in Madagascar on Thursday, which is Madagascar, Mauritius, Kamoros, Seychelles and Punctionalon – which is a region in France. China, India and the European Union are among the countries and international organizations that have the status of observers in the commission.
“We have to win the market for the least (the Indian Ocean Commission),” Macron said on Wednesday. “And then, more widely East Africa and the Indian Ocean.”
Regarding some of their disagreements, Rajoelina said that there will be a new round meeting on June 5 with the fate of the islands scattered, five small islands around Madagascar that come under foreign territories in France, but Madagascar claims.
France is in favor of a system where the islands will be jointly run by two countries, but last year the UK decision to control the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean has encouraged some of Madagascar near Mauritius – which to press for the entire control of the spread islands.
Madagascar and France are “Determined to find a solution together,” said Rajoelina.
Macron said that he would work with Madagascar more than 125 years ago from Madagascar and work on the agreed return of three skulls that were shown in a museum in Paris. One of them is considered to be the skull of King Terro, the King of Sakal, who was beheaded by the French army in 1897.
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