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Mauritania
A combined view of Mauritania's UN General Assembly speeches, treaty commitments, and voting record.
The narrative paragraphs below are AI-generated syntheses of the data shown — the tables and figures themselves come directly from the underlying records, not from the AI.
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Over 15 years of General Assembly statements, Mauritania has maintained a consistent pattern of blending domestic progress reporting with routine multilateral appeals. The country's rhetorical priorities have remained relatively stable, with multilateralism scores hovering between 42 and 74, though recent years (2023–2025) show a slight uptick in both multilateral engagement and emotional intensity, particularly around regional solidarity on Gaza and Palestine. Self-accountability and concreteness scores have generally remained moderate to high, reflecting Mauritania's preference for detailing its own governance and development achievements alongside diplomatic posturing on international issues.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | High | Low | Medium | Medium |
| 2009 | High | Low | Medium | Low |
| 2011 | High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| 2012 | High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2013 | Medium | Low | High | High |
| 2014 | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
| 2015 | High | Low | Medium | High |
| 2017 | Medium | Low | High | High |
| 2018 | High | Low | Medium | High |
| 2019 | Medium | Low | Medium | High |
| 2020 | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
| 2022 | High | Low | Medium | Medium |
| 2023 | High | Low | High | Medium |
| 2024 | High | Medium | Medium | High |
| 2025 | High | Medium | High | Medium |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Mauritania demonstrates strong commitment to environmental and human rights frameworks, having ratified 14 of 15 environment-related treaties and all five core human rights conventions tracked. The country has also embraced arms control treaties (3 of 4) and trade governance agreements (all 3), showing broad multilateral engagement across most issue areas. Notably, Mauritania has not taken action on two treaties: the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, suggesting selective rather than comprehensive international legal participation.
Arms control & security
- Arms Trade TreatyRatified
- Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban TreatyRatified
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their DestructionRatified
- Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear WeaponsNo action
Environment & climate
- Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their DisposalRatified
- Convention on Biological DiversityRatified
- Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
- Minamata Convention on MercuryRatified
- Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Paris AgreementRatified
- Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International TradeRatified
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic PollutantsRatified
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in AfricaRatified
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
Human rights
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or PunishmentRatified
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against WomenRatified
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesRatified
- Convention on the Rights of the ChildRatified
- International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsRatified
International justice
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal CourtNo action
Trade & governance
- United Nations Convention against CorruptionRatified
- United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeRatified
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the SeaRatified
Voting record
Full voting record →Mauritania votes in alignment with UN consensus the vast majority of the time, with 4,693 affirmative votes out of 5,424 recorded votes (86% yes rate). The country's rare dissents—only four notable instances across decades—include opposition to resolutions on human rights in Iraq, Palestinian territories, and internal UN administrative matters, alongside a notable 1978 vote against a Western Sahara resolution. This voting pattern reflects cautious alignment with mainstream positions while occasionally protecting specific national or regional interests.
Notable dissents from consensus
Human rights situation in Iraq : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2000-12-04 · voted N · 97% voted yes
Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the other occupied Arab territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2004-12-10 · voted N · 96% voted yes
First-class travel in the United Nations organizations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1977-12-21 · voted N · 93% voted yes
Question of Western Sahara : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1978-12-13 · voted N · 90% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.563 (Medium), ranked #163 globally in 2023.
Combines life expectancy, education, and income into one comparable score, 0 to 1. Source: UNDP Human Development Report 2025 — deterministic figures, not AI-generated.
1990–2023