President of Republic Holds Talks with NATO Secretary General

The President of the Republic, His Excellency Mr. Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, President in office of the G-5 Sahel, held talks,Thursday in Brussels, with the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Mr. Jens Stoltenberg. The talks, which took place in the NATO Headquarters in presence of many officials,discussed means of cooperation between Mauritania and NATO on the one hand, and between the latter and the G-5 Sahel, on the other. It should be noted that NATO is an international military organization founded in 1949. The NATO is a coalition of countries that aims to ensure the protection of its member states against any external threats.