Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (L) welcomes his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy upon his arrival at Houari Boumedienne airport, 03 december 2007 in Algiers. Sarkozy starts today a three-day visit in Algeria. Getty Images logo Getty Images 24 months ago

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (L) welcomes his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy upon his arrival at Houari Boumedienne airport, 03 december 2007 in Algiers. Sarkozy starts today a three-day visit in Algeria.

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  7. Members of French CFDT trade-union from the world's largest steel maker ArcelorMittal in Hayange, eastern France, answer to journalists as they wait for the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, preparing a symbolic meeting (with President's chair vacant). In 2008, President Sarkozy engaged to come back to the ArcelorMittal nearest Gandrange site, threatened of closing. Plans for a partial shutdown of the Gandrange steel factory were postponed last year after Sarkozy urged owner Lakshmi Mittal to reconsider. Sarkozy, who visits other factories in the eastern region on October 8, 2009, promised to go later in ArcelorMittal sites, according to Secretary of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez.
  8. Members of French CFDT trade-union from the world's largest steel maker ArcelorMittal in Hayange, eastern France, answer to journalists as they wait for the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, preparing a symbolic meeting (with President's chair vacant). In 2008, President Sarkozy engaged to come back to the ArcelorMittal nearest Gandrange site, threatened of closing. Plans for a partial shutdown of the Gandrange steel factory were postponed last year after Sarkozy urged owner Lakshmi Mittal to reconsider. Sarkozy, who visits other factories in the eastern region on October 8, 2009, promised to go later in ArcelorMittal sites, according to Secretary of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez.
  9. Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (L) shake hands with Cuba's Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura during Bouteflika's departure from Havana's Jose Marti airport September 30, 2009.
  10. Cuba's President Raul Castro and Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (R) review the honor guard during an official reception ceremony at Havana's Revolution Palace September 29, 2009.
  11. Cuba's President Raul Castro (C) and Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (R) review the honor guard during an official reception ceremony at Havana's Revolution Palace September 29, 2009.
  12. Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika lays a wreath on the Jose Marti monument in Havana, on September 29, 2009. Bouteflika is in Cuba in a three-day official visit.
  13. Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (R) shakes hands with Cuban first Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura during a wreath laying ceremony at Jose Marti monument in Havana, on September 29, 2009. Bouteflika is in Cuba in a three-day official visit.
  14. Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (R) and Cuban first Vice president Jose Ramon Machado Ventura attend a wreath laying ceremony at Jthe ose Marti monument in Havana, on September 29, 2009. Bouteflika is in Cuba in a three-day official visit.
  15. Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (C) in a wreath laying ceremony at Jose Marti monument in Havana, on September 29, 2009. Bouteflika is in Cuba in a three-day official visit. At right, Cuban first Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura.
  16. Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (C) in a wreath laying ceremony at Jose Marti monument in Havana, on September 29, 2009. Bouteflika is in Cuba in a three-day official visit.

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