Mauritania: Political Parties

(asked on 20th December 2016) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when his Department last met the main opposition parties in Mauritania; and whether slavery and reprisals against anti-slavery human rights defenders in that country were discussed at that meeting.


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Tobias Ellwood Portrait
Tobias Ellwood
This question was answered on 13th January 2017

The UK Head of the British Office Mission in Nouakchott last met with a coalition of Mauritanian opposition parties on Friday 2 December 2016. Human rights, including the issue of slavery, were discussed during the meeting.

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