Madar (Antalya) - President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani on Wednesday, November 11, 2026 met Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and then Republic of Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso on the sidelines of the Antalya leaders' summit, held as part of the 31st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP31) in the Turkish city of Antalya, the Mauritanian News Agency (AMI) reported.
The agency gave no details on the content of the two meetings.
Earlier the same day, President Ghazouani, accompanied by First Lady Mariem Fadel Dah, visited the Mauritanian pavilion at the conference, where he was briefed on the main national efforts and initiatives on environmental protection and climate change presented there, according to the same source.
The meetings followed President Ghazouani's address to the leaders' summit, in which he called for "easily accessible" climate finance and set out the figures of Mauritania's third climate pledge to 2035.
