Map of the expansionist project "Greater Morocco"
The claim of Mauritania by Morocco at the United Nations
The claim of Mauritania by Morocco at the General Assembly Fourth Committee
Intervention of the Representative of Morocco before the 4th Commission to protest against the inclusion of Mauritania and the Spanish Sahara among the Non Autonomous Territories, 14 October 1957
The request to include the item "The problem of Mauritania" in the General Assembly agenda
Letter dated 20 August 1960
addressed to the Secretary-General from the Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations
The letter demands the inclusion in the agenda of the General Assembly of the item "The problem of Mauritania" and annexes an "Explanatory memorandum" where Morocco states that the "independence of Mauritania" is a "separation of this region from the rest of Moroccan territory"
Letter dated 16 September 1960
addressed to the Secretary-General from the Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations
sending an addition to the "Explanatory memorandum"
The debate at the General Assembly First Committee débat dans la Première Commission de l'Assemblée Générale
General Assembly Fifteenth session. Agenda item 79: The problem of Mauritania (A/4445 and Add.1)
session 1109, 15 November 1960
[interventions of Morocco and France]
session 1111, 16 November 1960
[interventions of Senegal, Saudi Arabia, Gabon, Morocco and Afganisthan]
session 1113, 23 November 1960
[interventions of Madagascar, Central African Republic, Morocco, Niger, Cambodia and Libya]
session 1114, 23 November 1960
[interventions of Upper-Volta,Yemen, Lebanon, Chad, Sudan, Tunisia, Ivory Coast, Afganisthan and Guinea]
session 1115, 24 November 1960
[interventions of Cameroun, China, Indonesia, Netherlands, Philippines, Jordania, Cyprus and Iraq]
session 1116, 25 November 1960
[interventions of the United Arab Republic, Congo Brazzaville, Dahomey, Yugoslavia and India]
session 1117, 25 November 1960
[interventions of Pakistan, Maroc, France, Libye, Afganistan, Ivory Coast, USSR, Jordania, Senegal, Indonesia, Cuba and Gabon]
session 1118, 26 November 1960
[interventions of Afganishtan, Jordania, United Kingdom, France, Iraq, India, Guinea, Cyprus, South Africa, Pakistan, Cambodia, Ivory Coast, Guatemala, Senegal, Tunisia and Netherlands]
Report of the Firts Committee
26 November 1960
The claim of Mauritania by Morocco at the Security Council
Letter dated 3 December 1960
Addressed to the President of the Security Council by the representative of Morocco
Rejecting the admission of Mauritania in the United Nations because it was a "serious infringement" of its "national territory"