Mauritania to postpone elections, create provisional government
2009-06-03
Following six days of mediation talks, Mauritanian political rivals agreed to postpone the country's presidential election from June 7th to July 18th, Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio announced Tuesday (June 3rd) in Dakar, Under the deal brokered by international mediators from the African Union, the UN, the Arab League and the EU, a transitional government will be set up on June 6th. The opposition FNDD and RFD parties, which had planned to boycott the poll, will split 26 ministerial posts with the ruling junta's High State Council. Former junta leader General Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, who resigned to run in the presidential election, will name the prime minister. Abdelaziz is expected to sign the accord on Thursday in Nouakchott.
AFP quoted EU mediator Gilles Hervio as saying that the deal would "open the path to co-operation that has been suspended for too long" between Mauritania and the international community.
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