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=== Mauritania ===
{{Main|Israel–Mauritania relations}}

Mauritania [[Declaration of war|declared war]] on Israel as a result of the 1967 [[Six-Day War]],<ref name="Oz" /> following the [[Arab League]]'s collective decision (although Mauritania was not formally admitted to the League until November 1973).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YAd8efHdVzIC&dq=Mauritania+six-day+war+declare+OR+declaration&pg=PA127 ''The encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli conflict: a political, social, and military history, Volume 1 A-H''], Spencer Tucker, ABC-CLIO Inc, 2008, p127. Retrieved 25 December 2011</ref> Mautritania did not reverse that declaration until at least 1991.<ref name="Oz">[http://www.abc.net.au/rn/features/inbedwithphillip/episodes/151-amos-oz/ War and its Legacy] [[Amos Oz]] interview with [[Phillip Adams (writer)|Phillip Adams]], 10 September 1991, re-broadcast on [[ABC Radio National]] 23 December 2011</ref>

Mauritania did not abide by moves to [[International law and the Arab–Israeli conflict#The legal consequence of subsequent events|recognise]] Israel's right to exist in the same way as most other [[Arab countries]] later did, staying true to the 1967 [[Khartoum Resolution]] which, in reference to Israel, stated “no peace, no recognition, no negotiable.”

Little public information exists, and an account of Israeli-Mauritanian relations must be inferred from a number of indirect known factors, such as: behind the scenes meetings between Mauritania and Israel in 1995 and 1996, said to be at the instigation of Mauritania's President [[Ould Taya]];<ref name="Pazzanta">[https://books.google.com/books?id=-KU_9MfXKKYC&q=Israel&pg=PA374 ''Historical Dictionary of Mauritania''], Anthony G. Pazzanita, Scarecrow Press Inc, Lanham, Maryland USA, 2008, p216. Retrieved 25 December 2011</ref> the establishment of unofficial "interest sections" in the respective Spanish embassies in 1996 in the two capital cities,<ref name="Pazzanta" /> leading to the exchange of diplomatic representatives in each other's countries [[Israel#Foreign relations|from 27 October 1999]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ROR1xreEJTsC&dq=Mauritania+six-day+war&pg=PA285 ''A political chronology of Africa''], David Lea, Annamarie Rowe, Europa Publications Ltd, London, 2001, ISBN o-203-40309-6, p289. Retrieved 25 December 2011</ref> It is inferred from this evidence that Mauritania had reversed its declaration by then.

On 6 March 2009, the Israeli diplomatic delegation to Mauritania left after nine years of diplomatic ties, following a demand from the Mauritanian authorities to close the Israeli embassy in [[Nouakchott]] within 48 hours.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7928790.stm " Israel closes Mauritania embassy"], BBC News, 6 March 2009</ref> The Mauritanian delegation to Israel left earlier without sending official notice to the Israeli [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs]].<ref>[http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1069183.html "Mauritania expelled the Israeli embassy personnel"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605074407/http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1069183.html |date=5 June 2011}}, ''Haaretz'', 6 March 2006, in Hebrew</ref>