Article: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PRESIDENT PÖTTERING DISMAYED AT COUP D'ÉTAT IN MAURITANIA

The European Union's European Parliament issued the following press release:

The President of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering, condemns the coup d'état in Mauritania. He made the following declaration:

"The European Parliament is dismayed at the arrest of President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi and Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed Waghf. This violent overthrow of the ruling regime is unacceptable and completely disregards the sovereign electoral choice made by the people of Mauritania in favour of a democratically legitimated government.

As observers in 2006 and 2007, the European Union and the European Parliament were guarantors of the lawfulness of that election. On behalf of ...

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