Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1994, published 81st ILC session (1994)

Equality of Treatment (Social Security) Convention, 1962 (No. 118) - Mauritania (Ratification: 1968)

Article 5 of the Convention (Provision of benefits abroad). The Committee refers to its previous comments concerning the implementation of the recommendations of the Committee set up by the Governing Body to examine the representation made by the National Confederation of Workers of Senegal, under article 24 of the ILO Constitution, which invited the Government, among other measures, to take steps to establish and provide the benefits which may be due to Mauritanian nationals who left Mauritania following the events of 1989. The Committee notes the Government's statement in its report that bilateral technical committees are working on the settlement of all the matters relating to the benefits of Mauritanian and Senegalese nationals, and that in that context a solution will be found to the difficulties encountered in the implementation of the Convention. It also notes the information supplied by the Government in its report on Convention No. 111 to the effect that, at its meeting in November 1993, the Joint Mauritanian-Senegalese Committee decided that the bodies responsible for the provision of pensions, benefits and wage arrears in respect of the nationals of the two countries will receive instructions for the settlement of the entitlements of the beneficiaries for the period which has elapsed since 1989.

The Committee hopes that the Government will not fail to indicate in its next report the measures which it has taken to: (a) establish, where appropriate with the assistance of the bodies concerned, the benefits to which Mauritanian nationals who had to leave Mauritania following the events of April 1989 may be entitled under Article 5 of the Convention; and (b) to provide the benefits in question to these persons in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Convention.

Furthermore, the Committee once again expresses the hope that the Government will be able to supply in its next report, in accordance with point V of the report form on the Convention adopted by the Governing Body, detailed information on the effect given in practice to the Convention, including statistics on the number, nature and level of the benefits transferred to both Mauritanian and foreign nationals in the event that they reside outside the country.

[The Government is asked to report in detail for the period ending 30 June 1994.]