Tayeb Zitouni, Algerian minister of Mujahedeen (War Veterans), said last week that it is legitimate for Algeria to demand apologies from France for its colonial crimes.

"We are not against the French, but rather against French colonialism and we will not give up claiming our rights," Zitouni told the local national radio.

"Relations cannot be good without the resolution of the issue of memory," he noted.

The French young president's visit to the North African nation could mark a new era in the bilateral ties between Paris and Algiers, if he recognizes and apologizes for the erstwhile colonial acts.

Macron, 39, visited Algiers on Feb. 13 as part of his election campaign to presidency, when he told reporters that French colonization was a "crime against humanity."

Although his statement was welcomed in Algeria, it provoked indignation in the political arena in France.

However, the new French president recently made contradictory statements, as he told French Trace TV channel that there will be neither "recognition" nor "repentance" for French colonialism in the African continent.

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