On 27 June, Mauritania was elected as a member of the UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CMW), in recognition by the international community of its efforts to protect human rights, as a country destination and transit point for migrants.
In a statement released today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation, and Mauritanians Abroad indicated that our country’s election to this committee took place during the 11th meeting of CMW Member States held today in New York.
The statement reads as follows:
“Embodying the program of His Excellency the President of the Republic in foreign policy, Mauritanian diplomacy has sought, in recent years, to strengthen its active presence within regional and international bodies.
In this context and after our country was recently elected a member of the UN Economic and Social Council, reclassified second on the human trafficking index, here it is elected, last week, member of the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. As a culmination of this process, our country was elected, on Tuesday in New York, as a member of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, during the 11th meeting of the Member States of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families.
Our country’s election to this committee is recognition by the international community for its efforts to promote human rights as a country of destination and transit point for migrants.
The vote was attended by:
– Mr. Sidi Ould Mohamed Laghdaf, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of our country to the United Nations.
Mr. Haj Ould Lahbib, Second Counselor at the Mauritanian Mission to the United Nations in New York, in charge of the elections file in the United Nations agencies”
