Mauritanian politicians have agreed to postpone the disputed Presidential elections to July 18 from June 6, after painstaking negotiations that began on Thursday in the Senegalese capital Dakar, officials announced in Dakar late Tuesday.
Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio told reporters earlier in the day that the parties were working on a final declaration to end talks opened on May 28.
The negotiations involved Mauritania's three parties, including the military junta, the National Front of the Defence of Democracy (FNDD) and the Assembly of Democratic Forces (RFD), the backbone of the opposition.
The northwest African country plunged into a political crisis following the August 6 military coup, in which General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz toppled Mauritanian President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
Abdel Aziz's ruling High Council of State has since been challenged by both the FNDD and RFD over its legality.