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Update: Monday, 14 April 2008    

Algeria and Mauritania conclude an agreement Algeria and Mauritania conclude an agreement

To exchange information to face smuggling
Thursday Jun 01 2006.

The Customs General Department has signed yesterday an agreement concerning the exchange of information with its Mauritanian counterpart, especially on the smuggling.




When Mauritanian customs will take profit of the Algerian experience and in the customs’ training and coordinate views between countries in the field of international Customs’ cooperation.

The General Manager of Customs, Sid Ali Lebib, has indicated at the margin of the ratifying of PV of the joint commission of Algerian and Mauritanian Customs’ cooperation, in the seat of the General Direction of Customs, that the agreement on information between the two countries will help to fight “smugglers” that is to say money and goods on Algerian and Mauritanian borders. In a question on if the agreement will include the security side; Lebib has considered that it is out of the jurisdiction of the Customs’ administration, which only has the task to protect the economy. He has not denied the fight against security and economic incursions in coordination with different specialized services.

The General Manager of Mauritanian Customs, Mr. Mohamed Oueld M’hamedou, has considered the meeting which has lasted two days as an impulse to the bilateral relations between the two countries especially in the Customs and trade cooperation; he has expressed his wish to take profit of the Algerian Customs experience in order to develop its administration in different fields.

M. Chaouki — El-Khabar

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