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 ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy took the frosty edge off ties with Algeria on Tuesday during his first visit outside Europe, saying France and its colony for 132 years must bury a rocky past and reinvent the future.
He announced an invitation from President Abdelaziz Bouteflika for a state visit to Algeria in November.
"I came here neither to injure nor to excuse myself," Sarkozy said after meeting Bouteflika, referring to a rift between the two nations that has festered since French parliament passed a law in 2005 to put a positive spin on colonial history.
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