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The Committee notes with regret that the Government’s report has not been received and that the Government’s last report contained no reply to its previous comments. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which reads as follows:

The Committee notes that Article 66, paragraph 2 of the Law of 3 February 1967 states that benefits shall be suspended if the beneficiary is not resident in Mauritania, except as provided in reciprocity agreements or international conventions. The Committee recalls that under Article 5 of the Convention each Member which has accepted the obligations of the Convention in respect of the branch or branches of social security concerned shall guarantee both to its own nationals and to the nationals of any other Member which has accepted the obligations of the Convention is respect of the branch or branches in question, when they are resident abroad, provision of invalidity benefits, old-age benefits, survivors’ benefits and employment injury benefits. It would like the Government to indicate how in practice the payment of benefits is insured in case of residence abroad for both Mauritanian nationals and nationals of countries which have accepted the relevant branch when no bilateral agreement exists.