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Article: 1st LD: Mauritanian junta leader suspends election campaign
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- June 3, 2009
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1st LD: Mauritanian junta leader suspends election campaign
DAKAR, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Mauritanian junta leader Mohamed Ould
Abdel Aziz suspended his campaign to run for president on Wednesday
after rival parties reached an agreement to postpone the June 6 vote
the previous day in Dakar, the capital of Senegal.
Abdel Aziz announced his campaign suspension at a rally held in
Akjoujt, 250 km north of the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott,
according to information monitored here.
Mauritanian politicians agreed to postpone the disputed
presidential elections to July 18 late Tuesday, after painstaking
negotiations opened on May 28 in Dakar.
Under the agreement , Mauritania will hold its first ...