UN General Assembly
1962

13. In the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, we are well aware of this truth because we have experienced it and are still experiencing it within our small country. The lessons drawn from our own national experience prove to us that unity is possible if good faith and respect prevail. As we have, achieved national unity within our country, thanks to the desire of the Blacks and the Whites to live in common and to fight for the same ideal, it was natural that we would participate outside our country in any form of regrouping whose direct or indirect aim was to achieve African unity on a continental scale. It is for that reason that we have been an ardent supporter and a loyal member of the African and Malagasy Union ever since its inception.