Mauritanian government committed to implement association deal with ECOWAS
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian government Tuesday reaffirmed its strong commitment to the implementation of an association deal signed with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on 5 May 2017.
This commitment of the government was materialized by the participation of the minister of Trade and Tourism, Sid’Ahmed ould Mohamed, in a meeting of the West African organization devoted to the implementation of the African continental free trade area (AfCFTA) scheduled for the Nigerian capital, Abuja, Wednesday.
The declaration, made public on Tuesday evening, said that “a Mauritanian Trade minister had no longer taken part in an ECOWAS meeting for eleven years. This shows the level of commitment of our country and the ECOWAS Commission in the effective implementation of the Association Deal linking the two parties”.
The AfCFTA is a large common market project of 1.2 billion consumers.
Mauritania is a founding member of ECOWAS but left it at the beginning of the year 2000 to “devote to the establishment of the Union of Arab Maghreb (UMA)”.
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