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Mauritania
Nuclear-weapon-free state
Has not yet joined the TPNW
Status
Mauritania has not yet signed or ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
National position
Mauritania has promoted universal adherence to the TPNW, including by co-sponsoring and consistently voting in favour of an annual UN General Assembly resolution since 2018 that calls upon all states to sign, ratify, or accede to the treaty “at the earliest possible date”.
In 2022, Mauritania hailed the TPNW as “an important and outstanding collective contribution to the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons”. In 2020, it described it as “undeniably an historical step”.
Meetings of states parties
Mauritania attended as an observer the first meeting of states parties to the TPNW, held in Vienna in June 2022.
TPNW negotiations
Mauritania participated in the negotiation of the TPNW at the United Nations in New York in 2017 and was among 122 states that voted in favour of its adoption.
In 2016, Mauritania co-sponsored the UN General Assembly resolution that established the formal mandate for states to commence negotiations on “a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination”.
Before the negotiations
Mauritania was among 127 states that endorsed a “humanitarian pledge” in 2015–16 to cooperate “in efforts to stigmatise, prohibit, and eliminate nuclear weapons”. The pledge was instrumental in building momentum and support for convening the TPNW negotiations.
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Nuclear-weapon-free state
Has not yet joined the TPNW
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Status
Mauritania has not yet signed or ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
National position
Mauritania has promoted universal adherence to the TPNW, including by co-sponsoring and consistently voting in favour of an annual UN General Assembly resolution since 2018 that calls upon all states to sign, ratify, or accede to the treaty “at the earliest possible date”.
In 2022, Mauritania hailed the TPNW as “an important and outstanding collective contribution to the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons”. In 2020, it described it as “undeniably an historical step”.
Meetings of states parties
Mauritania attended as an observer the first meeting of states parties to the TPNW, held in Vienna in June 2022.
TPNW negotiations
Mauritania participated in the negotiation of the TPNW at the United Nations in New York in 2017 and was among 122 states that voted in favour of its adoption.
In 2016, Mauritania co-sponsored the UN General Assembly resolution that established the formal mandate for states to commence negotiations on “a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination”.
Before the negotiations
Mauritania was among 127 states that endorsed a “humanitarian pledge” in 2015–16 to cooperate “in efforts to stigmatise, prohibit, and eliminate nuclear weapons”. The pledge was instrumental in building momentum and support for convening the TPNW negotiations.
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