United Nations Security Council Upcoming: SouthernCameroons Case May Be On Agenda - Permanent Repres

According to Inner City Press, earlier this year, the UK Ambassador (Permanent Representative at the UN) said the anglophones crises in Cameroon was not a threat to international peace and security, but said he was monitoring the situation. He further said a meeting will be convened if the threshold is reached and if the UK asks for United Nations Security Meeting.

On October 5, 2017, Inner City Press asked the UK representative if the anglophone crises would be included on the agenda of the United Nations Security Council, which is upcoming this month, but Matthew Rycroft said, "no one has asked and the UK continues to weigh the pro and con of putting it on the Council's agenda (along with Myanmar, Guinea Bissau, Haiti, Colombia and others)".

Inner City Press might have asked this question hoping that the threshold had been reached, considering the mass killings, internet cut, human right abuses and especially on the minors.

On a similar note, Matthew Lee of Inner City Press (ICP) asked Francois Delattre, the UN Ambassador of France and President of the UN Security Council for October, why he has not yet convened a Security Council meeting amid the killings of civilians and cutting off of social networks in Cameroon. Here his response "Delattre said the French Foreign Ministry's spokesperson has spoken earlier in the day, again calling for dialogue".

ICP confirmed that Guterres' spokespeople have three times refused their request for the UN's estimate of how many people have been killed by Paul Biya's forces since Guterres offered him praise on September 22.

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