Mali-Mauritania: Nouakchott Remains Firm but Prefers Appeasement

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Mauritania's Foreign Minister, Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug, received Mali's Ambassador in Nouakchott on Monday 16 March. On Tuesday, Mali's chief of diplomacy, Abdoulaye Diop, received the Mauritanian Chargé d'affaires in Bamako. Both Mauritanian and Malian official communiqués underline the will of both countries to "strengthen" their "bilateral cooperation." Words apparently inducing a mutual will to defuse the crisis, after Mali stated on Sund…

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The Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Mali, Abdullah Diop, received yesterday in Bamako, the Chargé d ' affaires of the Mauritanian Embassy, Sheikha Habib Rahman, in the context of bilateral relations and common security issues. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs explained that the talks dealt with bilateral relations and security files, where Diop stressed the need to strengthen cooperation between the two countrie…