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France and the Indian Ocean state of Comoros have agreed to resolve a row linked to immigration and territorial disputes, they said on Wednesday.
Comoros will reverse a March 21 decision to refuse to accept Comoros citizens turned away from the island of Mayotte, which is officially part of France, although Comoros claims it. In turn, France will rescind a suspension on visas for Comorians.
Faced with a wave of migrants this year, many of them pregnant women hoping to give birth in Mayotte so their children could become French, France this year began deporting would-be immigrants back to Comoros.
French police have detained a woman at a hospital in Dunkirk after she made a bomb threat and sparked a security scare.Police said in a statement that the woman made the threat after entering the hospital's emergency care unit.Hospital workers alerted the police, who sealed off the area and deployed a bomb-disposal team."The person is under police control," the statement said.Regional newspaper La Voix du Nord had reported that the woman was threatening to detonate a bomb.Photos posted on the paper's website showed police sealing off the area.Police said a judicial investigation would have to determine the circumstances surrounding the threat. Sources said the woman was likely suffering from psychological problems.New World Order exposed and in bad shape
French police detain woman after bomb threat at Dunkirk hospital
Comoros considers Mayotte, 400 km (250 miles) east of Mozambique, as part of its archipelago.
But Mayotte is a former French colony that voted against independence in 1974 and 1976. In 2009, its people voted overwhelmingly to become a full part of France.
That has kept Mayotte richer and more stable than the coup-prone Comoros, and many Comorians try to move to Mayotte.
Further agreed steps will be set out in a document to be signed later this month, the two foreign ministries said in a joint statement.