Minister of Industry Meets with OAPI Director General

The Minister of Trade, Industry, Handicrafts, and Tourism, Ms. Naha Mint Hamdi Ould Moukness, met, on Monday in Nouakchott, with the Director General of the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI), Mr. Denis Lokou Bohoussou. During the meeting, the two parties discussed the procedures related to the signing of an agreement for the construction of an OAPI headquarters in Mauritania, which is a founding member of OAPI. Composed of 17 member countries, OAPI works to uniformly protect intellectual property rights, in particular through the issuance of documents to protect industrial property rights, in accordance with the Bangui Agreement signed on 2 March 1977.