Abstract:
This study entitled "The Algerian French negotiations between (1960/1962), one of
the crucial phases in the history of the Algerian Liberation Movement, investigates the
early period of the revolution. This period is seen as the bridge through which the
Algerian Revolution got its independence. From the very start, The National
Liberation Front announced the principle of negotiation and the armed struggle among
the solutions as stated in the official document “November statement”.
The Algerian -French negotiations were not the outcome of the period between
1960/1962;however, it dated back to the early contacts between the two sides in 1956,
represented in several preliminary meetings all of them drifted into failure for many
reasons. Thus, the negotiations stopped and appeared again during Moulin meetings in
1960, a year later in the meetings of Lucerne 1961 and another meeting in Niuchal in the
same year, but these last contacts turned to secret meetings which led to its failure again.
the representatives of the two governments (the Algerian and the French) came to
negotiate officially during Evian Accord through two major stages. The first stage was
in the year1961,it included a series of meetings starting from the first Evian in May,
then with Loughran in July and PAL meetings as well as the secret meeting between the
Ministers of the two governments .All these meetings provided intensive works.
Whereas, the second stage took place in Lee Ross (February, 1962).where they signed
the Evian agreements, brought about a ceasefire in 19 march 1962 and decided to hold a
referendum.
