UK Ambassador On Ambazonia Case: "I've A Letter Signed By 24 US Congressmen, Urging US Amba
- Linda EYONG Suzy
- Oct 20, 2017
- 2 min read
Since the episodic escalation of the anglophone problem late last year, especially following the formation of the interim government of the Southern Cameroons, much has been done for the problem to be tabled and discussed at the United Nations (Security Council). To make this happen, Southern Cameroonian diaspora has been carrying out tireless street protests at different scenes for over a year now, while the interim government has been parading the corridors of powers of various countries, and the Foley Hoag Law firm has also been doing a lot.
According to the United Nations Security Council, for the matter to be put on the agenda and discussed, any member state to the Council can table it. This was confirmed by the United Kingdom Ambassador to the United Nations, Matthew Rycroft during an interview with Inner City Press (see extract below);
UNITED NATIONS, October 19 – From Southern Cameroons people are sending me photos of people shot by Paul Biya's forces; from Nigeria people send videos of refugees fleeing across the border to avoid that fate.
When UK Ambassador to the UN, Matthew Rycroft, comes to the Security Council stakeout on October 17 I have a question for him.
Question from Inner City Press:
isn't it time to admit that this is a threat to international peace and security? Isn't it time for the UK, the former colonial power of the British Southern Cameroons, to call for a meeting in the Security Council?
Rycroft looks annoyed. He says;
the UK is not the only one who could make the request - although it seems clear that they have the most duty. But nature abhors a vacuum. I've been sent a draft letter that two dozen US Congress members may deliver to US Ambassador Nikki Haley, Rycroft's higher-profile counterpart on the Council, urging her to get the meeting that the UK and of course France refuse to request.
In the last paragraph of his response above, the UK ambassador talks about the letter issued by the 24 out of 27 US Congressmen, requesting their ambassador, Kikki Haley, to table the case at the UN Security Council.
In another interview with Kikki Haley (US Ambassador to UN), she welcomed the idea, and said she was very opened to it.
Therefore, in the upcoming days, the Southern Cameroons case will be a topic at the UN Security Council, and according to the letter, the council shall be giving us briefings as the case unfolds.
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Bassona Nkeng
SC Blogger, Lebialem County
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