The UNSG & Cameroon's Biya discussed About CAR refugees in Cameroon, Lake Chad Basin, &
- Linda EYONG Suzy
- Oct 29, 2017
- 5 min read
Below is an extract of the interview between the United Nations Spokesperson and Inner City Press, about Secretary General's visit on October 27, 2017, in Cameroon.
Inner City Press, as usual, asked questions to the United Nations related to the Anglophone crises, which they couldn't answer. Amongst other questions, the media wanted UN to explain why Francois Fall, UN Representative for Central Africa, called Anglophone Secessionists "Extremists".
Read an extract of the interview below;
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres left the Central African Republic after four days and stopped over in Yaounde the capital of La Republique du Cameroun, meeting with Paul Biya to assess the situation in the Anglophone areas where Biya has killed hundreds since their last meeting. The UN begrudgingly told Inner City Press that Francois Fall, so far Guterres' point-man on the killings, was with him. But the UN has refused to explain, more for more than day, its own Department of Public Information's broadcast of Fall sayin g of Anglophones, There are extremists demanding secession, others who want a return to Federalism. We are not there... We want the government to continue its élanof appeasement. This type of statement should get a mediator or envoy fired, but the UN won't explain. So here is the audio, via Patreon from DPI's UN Radio under Alison Smale (whose DPI has threatened Inner City Press' accreditation for publishing audio clips of what UN officials say.)
Even the day after Guterres' stop over the UN had issued no read-out or photo of the meeting, UNlike Biya's office here, complete with photos of Biya giving Guterres a statuette or award, like the one Ban Ki-moon received from the now discredited South South News, along with Francis Lorenzo who pleaded guilty to UN bribery.
After Inner City Press asked for a read-out and where Guterres is, one came back, which we published in full, below. But Inner City Press immediately asked Guterres' top three spokespeople:
"Since it seems SG Guterres met only Paul Biya while in Cameroon, this is a request for all available information about the visit of Mr Fall, who Inner City Press was told on Friday by the UN (and before that by others) accompanied SG Guterres. Will he be going to NW or SW Cameroon? Will he meet with opposition? And can you explain Fall's equation, in a radio clip on UN radio, of secessionists with "extremists"? Here at 1:40." Six and a half hours later, nothing, nothing at all - Matthew Lee, Inner City Press
The read-out (Response - incomplete): "Dear Matthew, In response to your question, the Secretary-General and President Paul Biya discussed the situation in the Central African Republic; refugees in Cameroon; the situation in the Lake Chad Basin; and the situation in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon."
Inner City Press: So what might Biya have said about this region in which he has killed so many? And why didn't Guterres listen to any of those impacted?
The UN still refuses even to say where Guterres was, until Monday, spending public funds in UNdisclosed amounts.
In UN headquarters on October 28, where Guterres' Department of Public Information under Alison Smale has threatened Inner City Press' accreditation for reporting what Guterres' officials say, UN excutions expert Agnes Callamard said it would have been better if Guterres had issued a read out of his meeting with the Philippines foreign minister. But Guterres is untransparent, and more. This is today's UN. with his team of UN "storytellers" trying to make him and the UN look good.
His spokespeople refused three times to confirm to Inner City Press that he would stop, if only for four hours, in Cameroon where hundreds have been killed by the government, which as repeatedly cut of the Internet to prevent exposure of its crackdown.
Then Guterres handed the "news" to Agence France Presse, which never asked him about Cameroon at the UN. So on October 27, Inner City Press again asked Guterres' deputy spokesman Farhan Haq, UN transcript here:
Inner City Press: I wanted to ask you about, as I have the last three days in a row, about the Secretary-General's stopover in Yaoundé. I saw he was quoted by AFP [Agence France-Presse]. Quote, we're going to be able to… we are going to be able to assess the recent evolution of the situation in the Anglophone community. So some people are wondering how a four-hour stopover in an airport and speaking with Paul Biya, who's actually the one accused of the killings and turning off the internet in the Anglophone areas, is going to make the Secretary-General able to assess the evolution. Is he going to speak to anyone else on the other side of it? And also, why was it so… why was it so difficult to confirm this trip, and why did he do it in the way that he did?
Deputy Spokesman: The Secretary-General is the one who confirms when he will go to certain places. He did announce it yesterday, and after which, we made it very clear that that's where he was going. Up until then, it wasn't officially confirmed. He will go there, and we'll try to get some details from his meeting. But, of course, this is not the only way that we've been assessing the situation. There have been efforts by other officials, including his envoy, François Lonseny Fall, to deal with the situation, and we'll continue with those efforts.
Innner City Press: So it was said right after 1 October and all the killings that Mr. Fall was going to go. Now it's 27 October. Has Mr. Fall gone? Deputy Spokesman: He will, I believe, be accompanying the Secretary-General on this visit." But Fall is the one who, on UN Radio, calls secessionists in Southern Cameroons "extremists." We'll have more on this.
Source: Inner City Press >>>
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