UN General Assembly
1978

8. It is only natural, then, that the Mauritanian people, the Military Committee for National Recovery and the Mauritanian Government, each assuming its part of the joint responsibility for seeking peace, should have set £8 their goal the achievement of concord and understanding among peoples, especially the peoples of the western Maghreb subregion, to which we are proud to belong. 9. That is why Mauritania decided, immediately after 10 July 1978, to embark on dynamic action for peace and involve therein the Organization of African Unity [OAUJ, the League of Arab States and the United Nations. 10. We want a comprehensive peace, because only the voluntary and sincere commitment of ail the parties to the dispute can bring about a final settlement of this distressing fratricidal conflict