Minister of Foreign Affairs, Senegalese Counterpart Sign Two Cooperation Agreements

On 2 June, in Nouakchott, Mr. Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation, and Mauritanians Abroad,  held talks with Ms. Yassine Fall, the Senegalese Minister of African Integration and Foreign Affairs, who is on a working visit to our country.

Discussions focused on strengthening cooperation between the two brotherly countries and ways of improving and further developing it.

At the end of the meeting, the Minister and his Senegalese counterpart signed two cooperation agreements, the first on the fight against irregular migration, migrant smuggling, human trafficking, and related practices, as well as the protection of victims, and the second on the regulation of conditions of entry, residence, and establishment of persons and goods between the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and the Republic of Senegal.

The first agreement aims to put an end to the suffering, violations, and crimes associated with human trafficking and migrant smuggling, which exploit the vulnerability of the most vulnerable, and to strengthen our common capacity to prevent criminal operations.

The second agreement aims to specify the conditions and procedures for regular, legal, and economic movement between the two countries to lay the foundations for the orderly movement of people and goods, within a framework that respects the sovereignty of both countries and their international obligations, enabling citizens to enter, stay, and settle within a transparent legal framework that reduces administrative fragility and border tensions.