AU Peace and Security Commissioner Ramta

AU Peace and Security Commissioner Ramtane Lamamra (1st L), Sidi Ahmed ould Rais of UPR (2dL), Abdou rahmane Old Moine of RFD (3rd, L), Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade (3rd R), Mohamed Old Maloud of FNBD (2dr) and Senegalese mediator Cheikh Tidiane Gadio pose during a meeting on June 2, 2009 in Dakar after they announced Mauritania's main political parties reached an agreement to delay this weekend's disputed presidential elections to July 18 and to allow opposition parties to participate in the vote. The deal signals an end to Mauritania's political stalemate since a military junta led by General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz last August toppled the west African country's first democratically elected president. AFP PHOTO SEYLLOU (Photo credit should read SEYLLOU/AFP via Getty Images)