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Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani

lines on the record: 27
first: 2019-09-24
most recent: 2023-09-24
sittings or episodes: 2
sources: un-general-debate

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“That would strengthen the trust that everyone should have in the United Nations and in its effectiveness so as to bring about international peace and security and achieve the SDGs.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“That is why we call for a resolution to the issue of debt by reforming the development debt system and increasing support for the least developed countries, which are the most vulnerable, through multilateral cooperation, which should be strengthened. Our Organization is the institutional embodiment of our common destiny and of the need to cooperate and ensure solidarity so as to meet common challenges while upholding our shared values. We therefore need to work together so as to continue reforming the Organization. We must work until its approach to international crises becomes more balanced, fairer and more considerate of the needs of the least developed countries.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“We call for a negotiated solution that takes into account the concerns of various parties, with respect for international law and the Charter of the United Nations. We reject all forms of power grab through non-constitutional means, and call on sisterly Sahel countries that experienced military coups to rapidly return to the constitutional order. We are well aware that a great deal remains to be done in order to attain the SDGs. We in Mauritania need financial resources that are far greater than what we can mobilize domestically. Our situation is similar to that of most developing States and African States in particular. That is why the easing of the debt burden of those countries, heightening the level of investment and upholding the commitments undertaken by partners could have helped us to collectively achieve better results.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“We call for the deployment of all possible efforts to effectively and sustainably put an end to the hostilities in the Republic of the Sudan and to reach a comprehensive political solution in that brotherly country. We also stand with the Government of Somalia in its efforts to attain security and stability. We reiterate our firm position on the conflict in Western Sahara. We support the efforts being made by the United Nations as well as all Security Council resolutions aimed at finding a lasting solution that is acceptable to all. We strongly condemn the phenomenon of Islamophobia, which distorts Islam and sows division and hatred between Muslims and the West in particular. We would like to express our concern as regards the continued war in Ukraine.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Our efforts to achieve regional and international peace and stability are part and parcel of our foreign policy, which is based on good-neighbourliness, mutual respect, constructive cooperation, dialogue, negotiations, adherence to international treaties and support for just causes. In that regard. I would like to reaffirm the right of the Palestinian people to create an independent State with East Jerusalem as its capital, in keeping with the relevant resolutions of the United Nations and the Arab Peace Initiative. We also support solutions aimed at preserving territorial integrity, stability and security in Libya. Yemen and Syria.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Those reforms have strengthened our rule of law. democratic system and transparency. That would have been impossible without the security and stability that reign throughout the country, despite the fact that the regional and international environments are currently particularly unstable. Our integrated security strategy was also praised by all stakeholders. We have contributed to the stability and security of the subregion through the Group of Five for the Sahel, which we are currently chairing. We are also contributing to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic and are hosting more than 100.000 of our Malian brothers who found refuge in Mauritania in the wake of the instability in their country.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Numerous promising reforms are also under way in the area of education so as to create a republican schooling system that gives all our children a high- quality education and equal opportunities. Furthermore, we are actively working on strengthening the rule of law. good governance, social cohesion and individual and collective freedom. We are ensuring the promotion of human rights and the rights of women and children, and we are fighting both contemporary and old forms of slavery. We have seen positive results in all of those areas, acknowledged by our partners and specialized international bodies. In all aspects of our public policy, we rely on dialogue and openness with all parties. We undertook an in-depth reform of our judicial system to strengthen the independence of our judiciary and to guarantee the separation of powers.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Our efforts in the area of energy transition are accompanied by a continued fight against desertification and other forms of climate change, with a view to restoring the balance of our ecosystems. We are doing so in the context of the Great Green Wall initiative and the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel, thereby strengthening the green economy. We also are investing in our human capital. We have implemented various youth training programmes to make it easier for young people to enter the labour market and to protect them against extremism and fundamentalism. We have also launched programmes aimed at the empowerment of women and at strengthening their participation in the country’s political and public life.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Energy diversification has broadened in Mauritania thanks to our recently launched programme for the development of green hydrogen energy, which provides us with an alternative and sustainable source of clean energy. That will help us to achieve the objective of an 11 per cent drop in carbon emissions. The twenty-eighth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, set to take place in the United Arab Emirates, is for us a source of great hope. We call on industrialized States to honour the commitments that they undertook in the area of greenhouse-gas emissions and those that they made during the Paris summit.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“We have also strengthened economic, financial and monetary governance in my country by increasing the productivity of sectors such as agriculture, fisheries and animal husbandry so as to achieve food security and self-sufficiency. Thanks to those reforms, economic growth in Mauritania reached 6.4 per cent last year. Access to basic services also improved, and access to health-care services has broadened. The percentage of the population with access to drinking water reached 72.33 per cent and with access to electricity 91.84 per cent in urban areas and 53 per cent on average throughout the country. The share of renewable energy was 34 per cent in 2020. and we are aiming for 50 per cent by 2030.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Thanks to our considerable efforts and despite the unfavourable regional and international circumstances, we were able to improve many SDG-related indicators in my country. We have fought poverty, vulnerability and exclusion. We have created a broad network for social protection so as to strengthen the resilience of our most vulnerable citizens, increase their purchasing power and expand medical and social coverage so as to progressively achieve universal health coverage. We further undertook structural reforms in order to build a diversified economy that is more resilient and better able to create jobs and add value.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“we remain hopeful about the implementation of the SDGs. which depends on our collective capacity to chart new courses for multilateral cooperation and rectify the imbalance in the development assistance system so as to create more effective mechanisms for providing the funding needed to finance sustainable development. The seventy-eighth session of the General Assembly is of utmost importance, as it allows us to carry out a midterm review of the implementation of the SDGs and to discuss means to accelerate the process. We in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania have made the implementation of the SDGs the focus of our development efforts, as reflected in our accelerated growth and prosperity strategy, which is the framework for our public action for development.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Our fates are interconnected, and we therefore need to accelerate the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 pursuant to our collective commitment to that end. There is no doubt that the pace and the degree of inclusivity of that implementation have so far been below our expectations due to the diversity of current challenges. Globally speaking, the progress made so far. in particular in developing countries, is slowing down and experiencing difficulties. That is reflected in the worsening levels of poverty and unemployment, the acute public-health and food crises and inflation, which could lead to economic recession and greater violence, terrorism and destructive armed conflicts, all of that accompanied by environmental degradation of our planet. However, as grim as that picture is.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“It is my pleasure at the outset to express my congratulations to His Excellency Ambassador Dennis Francis on his assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session and to wish him every success. I should like also to thank his predecessor. His Excellency Mr. Csaba Korosi. for the outstanding manner in which he steered the work of the General Assembly at its previous session. Furthermore. I wish to commend the valuable efforts made by His Excellency the Secretary-General. Mr. Antonio Guterres, to strengthen the role played by the United Nations to achieve its objectives. Our world today is experiencing various acute interlinked crises whose negative effects are affecting everyone, although to varying degrees.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“We also condemn the terrorist attacks targeting the national security of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We welcome the political agreement concluded by the sisterly Republic of the Sudan and we call for its name to be removed from the list of State sponsors of terrorism. We also strongly support the Government of Somalia in its efforts to restore security and stability. We reiterate our full commitment to achieving the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. May God help the people of the world to achieve sustainable and comprehensive development that preserves the future of our planet and provides every human being, wherever she or he may be on the face of the Earth, with a decent life while ensuring his rights, freedom and dignity.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“In Libya, we support international efforts aimed at establishing peace in that fraternal country and ensuring its territorial integrity and sovereignty. Turning to the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, we reiterate the need to work seriously to find a political solution that would preserve the unity of that fraternal Arab country and safeguard its independence, the dignity of its people and its right to live in peace and security. We welcome the formation of the consensual Constitutional Committee with a view to drafting a constitution sponsored by the United Nations. Concerning Yemen, we affirm our support for legitimacy in that country and we call for the adoption of a peaceful solution that is in line with Arab initiatives and relevant international resolutions.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“We welcome them while we await the restoration of peace in their villages and towns in the north of Mali, despite the considerable pressure that has been placed on our population and economy, especially in the eastern part of the country. Our country has steadfastly defended just causes in all international forums. We reiterate our unflagging commitment to the right of the Palestinian people to dignity and sovereignty within a viable, independent State, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with the Arab Peace Initiative and the relevant international resolutions. We also denounce the continued Israeli violations of human rights in Palestine and the rest of the occupied Arab territories.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“The strategy follows a comprehensive approach that takes into account the security, intellectual, economic and social dimensions. Our country, hand-in-hand with the fraternal Group of Five for the Sahel (G-5 Sahel) and through its participation in United Nations peacekeeping operations, has contributed to restoring peace and security in the Sahel region and the African continent in general. We are consistently committed to the policy of good-neighbourliness and to distancing ourselves from conflict. In that context, Mauritania has provided a haven of safety and security for more than 50,000 refugees from the sisterly country Republic of Mali.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“At the same time, we have also worked to strengthen the rule of law and consolidate public freedoms, particularly the freedom of the press, to develop democracy and to guarantee flexibility and transparency in the work of public institutions that oversee political life. That general approach culminated recently in the holding of transparent presidential elections, in which the outgoing President did not participate, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, which does not authorize more than two consecutive terms for the same President. The handover of power between the two democratically elected Presidents took place smoothly and calmly. Aware of the fact that security and development are linked, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania has established an effective strategy to combat terrorism and all forms of extremism.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“We have also focused on training and rehabilitating our young people through an approach aimed at enabling them to access the labour market and contribute to the development of the national economy. We have also enabled woman to play their role by becoming strongly involved in political life and public affairs. Our work to achieve sustainable development would be essentially in vain if we were not also to consolidate the rule of law, reinforce good governance, safeguard human rights, promote democracy and champion both individual and collective freedoms. To that end, our country has chosen transparency as a comprehensive approach to managing public affairs. We have resolutely fought against all forms of corruption and bribery and have developed legal and regulatory mechanisms to eradicate those development scourges.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“In the context of the fight against poverty, and within the framework of our strategy for accelerated growth and shared prosperity, we have focused on addressing social inequalities by targeting vulnerable sectors, supporting disadvantaged groups and promoting social solidarity. We are currently working to launch a series of ambitious projects within a variety of programmes that include supporting purchasing power and access to such basic services as electricity, drinking water, health care and education. We have also made great efforts to accelerate the pace of economic growth and to improve the business climate, while supporting partnerships between the public and private sectors, as well as developing processing industries, so as to liberate our economy from being exclusively dependent on the export of raw materials.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“We are also working continuously to improve the quality of education in both of its components, scientific and vocational, in line with the need of our national economy to keep pace with globalization. We have also made significant achievements in this domain, as reflected in the major indicators of our educational system, including access, total coverage and proactive capacity ratios. With a view to ensuring that all of our citizens , particularly those in vulnerable circumstances, have access to basic services, we have managed in Mauritania to considerably improve our total health coverage by strengthening health infrastructure — hospitals and equipped medical centres — and by investing in human resources, including high-level medical personnel.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“The initiative will provide over 29 million people with access to clean energy in the short and medium terms. Like other Sahel countries that benefit from it, we attach great importance to the initiative, which will certainly have a positive impact on the environment and development in our region. The Islamic Republic of Mauritania is determined in its tireless pursuit to establish the principle of mandatory education and accomplish gender equality in this domain, as well as to build schools for future generations to be educated while upholding the principles of liberty, equality, tolerance and openness based on the characteristics of our culture and civilization.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“The aim is to bridge the gaps in our production systems and to compensate for the economic and social harm caused by these negative impacts. We have also made considerable progress in the fight against desertification while reclaiming for future use large surface areas that have been affected by desertification, complementing our efforts within the Permanent Interstate Committee to Fight against Drought in the Sahel. We have also made gradual progress with regard to rationally use our maritime resources and have been able to restore our magnificent biological diversity. We are currently working with 10 States of the Sahel within the Desert to Power programme launched by the African Development Bank with the aim of making the Sahel one of the most productive regions in the world in terms of solar energy.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“In the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, we are committed to these goals and have incorporated sustainable development into our development strategy. We have made considerable achievements in this domain by focusing on renewable energy — both solar and wind energy. We have thereby achieved 40 per cent clean energy out of the total energy consumed. We are working continuously to increase that percentage because we are aware of the importance of clean energy, its positive impact on the environment and its great contribution to reducing pollution. Moreover, along with other States of the Sahel, we have launched the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative to counter the negative impact of desertification and climate change on our environment and agricultural resources.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“Each session of the General Assembly is an opportunity for States to go beyond their individual situations and debate the common destiny of humankind with a view to establishing guidelines and adopting programmes, plans and strategies that ensure a prosperous and sustainable future for our planet and people. In that respect, at its seventieth session in 2015, the General Assembly launched the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which includes a group of interlinking goals aimed at addressing major global challenges concerning the environment, climate, health care and education, as well as security, stability, development and others, for a better, more sustainable and more comprehensive future for humankind.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“At the outset, I am pleased to congratulate Mr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, Permanent Representative of the sisterly State of Nigeria, on assuming the presidency of the United Nations General Assembly at its seventy-fourth session and I wish him every success in his new tasks. I want also to express my sincere thanks and gratitude to Ms. Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces for the high efficiency and professionalism with which she steered the previous session of the General Assembly. I also pay tribute to the great efforts and continued endeavours of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres regarding the reform and management of our Organization for the sake of international peace and security.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)