Prime Minister Receives President of Cities, Local Governments

The Prime Minister, Mr. Mohamed Ould Bilal, received, Thursday afternoon in Nouakchott, Mr. Mohamed Boudra, President of the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and President of the Moroccan Association of Presidents of Associative Councils. The meeting made it possible to discuss the cooperative relations existing between our country and this organization and the ways and means of developing them. At the end of the meeting, the president of the UCLG made a statement to the Mauritanian news agency (AMI) in which he said he was honored by the meeting with the Prime Minister, stressing that his presence in Mauritania at the invitation of the association of mayors of Mauritania comes within the framework of support for decentralization and local democracy. He added: “We are proud at the level of the two organizations of the initiative of His Excellency the President of the Republic to create the institution of decentralization and local democracy and his presidency of this initiative which must be welcomed and that we are going to make known so that all the States follow the process to accomplish this important achievement from which we expect a lot of good for the populations, because decentralization is essential for local development ”.