The Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation, and Mauritanians Abroad, Mr. Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug, returned early Thursday morning to the capital Nouakchott, coming from Abidjan in the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, after he chaired, alongside the Ivorian Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Integration, and Ivorians Abroad, Mr. Léon Kakou Adom, the first session of the Mauritanian-Ivorian Joint High Committee for Cooperation.