Hommam Al Nassim 
Two Algerian experts specialized in the “memory file” described the contents of the report submitted by the Algerian-French Joint Commission on Memory and Colonialism and its recommendations to Presidents Abdelmadjid Tebboune and Emmanuel Macron as “not serious”.
The report included 11 recommendations within the framework of working on “reconciliation between the two memories”, which is an obstacle to the development of relations between the two countries, and the two experts said that the recommendations:
According to Algerian researcher Nabil Kahlouch, quoting the Russian agency “Sputnik”, “the mined committee, according to current indicators, will not be able to proceed with its work without a higher political will.”
Algerian political analyst Ahsan Khalas told Sputnik that “the Algerian side is waiting for the joint committee to document and control the outcome of the crimes committed by colonial France, from the beginning of the occupation until the detonation of the last nuclear bomb in the Algerian desert, and the effects of these crimes on the Algerian social and demographic fabric.”
The memory file is one of the most prominent files that Algeria insists on opening fully with France, as the two parties agreed during Macron’s recent visit to Algeria in August 2022 to “establish a joint committee of French and Algerian historians, responsible for working on all archives from the beginning of the French occupation until independence.”