Member state

Mauritania at the United Nations

Admitted

1961-10-27

ISO 3166-1

MR / MRT

Admitted by

A/RES/1631 (XVI)

International organisations

Every organisation this state belongs to that is compiled here, with the date it joined. Membership is resolved against this site’s own list of member states rather than taken from a query.

Service on principal organs

Elected terms as recorded by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. A year marked pending is one the Library publishes as a partial list because its elections have not yet been held.

Economic and Social Council

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Human Rights Council

2022 2021 2020 2013 2012 2011 2010

Security Council

1975 1974

Permanent mission

Mission

Permanent Mission of Mauritania to the United Nations

Address

Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania to the United Nations, 820 Second Avenue, Suite 17A, New York, NY 10017

National holiday

Independence Day, 28 November

Accredited diplomats

13

Accredited diplomats

• Mr. Sidi Mohamed Laghdaf Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary / Permanent Representative
• Mr. El Hassen El Houssein First Counsellor
• Col. Mohamed Mahmoud Boussalef First Counsellor / Military Adviser
• Mr. Ahmed Hemah First Counsellor
• Mr. Mohamed Diop Second Counsellor
• Mrs. Mariam Sao Second Counsellor
• Mrs. Soueda El Guera Second Counsellor
• Mr. El Hadj Mohamedou Second Counsellor
• Mr. Boukary Soumaré Second Counsellor
• Mr. Baba Hamed Mbareck Second Counsellor
• Col. Ibrahima Jibril Gueye Second Counsellor / Deputy Military Adviser
• Mr. Nagi Boubacar Attaché / Financial Attaché
• Mr. Ralph A. Kader Attaché

The numbers

World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0. The sparkline shows the shape of each run from its first reported year; the number beside it carries the magnitude, and there is deliberately no axis on it.

General Debate statements

59 statements to the General Debate since 1962, 150,718 words in all. The longest was 1976, at 6,195 words, delivered by Mr. Ould Mouknass.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×16, President ×5, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation ×3, Minister of Foreign Affairs ×2. Earlier years are excluded because UN records do not consistently identify a speaker’s post before 1994, and counting those years as though they did would make any state look as though it sent nobody senior.

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Emblems and location

Treaties joined

53 actions recorded by the Secretary-General as depositary. Only treaties whose participant counts match the depositary’s own stated totals contribute rows.

Recorded votes

Provenance

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