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Cameroon Mbella Blames
Separatists In Empty UNGA
Protected By UN Guterres Who
Bans Press
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT NYP
UN GATE, Sept 27
– From a
prison in
Yaounde in
Cameroon, on
September 25
Inner City
Press received
an open letter
to UN
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres from
CRM leader
Maurice Kamto
who though his
intermediary
in the US
asked that
Inner City
Press, banned
from the UN by
Guterres,
publish its
content. We
immediately did,
below.
On September
26 in a nearly
empty UN
General
Assembly Hall
Biya's foreign
minister Lejeune
Mbella Mbelle
gave a
speech nearly
entirely in
French, blaming
all problems in the
SW and NW on
separatists. Inner
City Press, banned
from the UN by
Biya's
colluder
Guterres, puts some
of it
immediately on
Twitter, here.
Now here is
the whole
speech, on YouTube.
It is shameful
- and Guterres
is shameless.
We'll have
more on this.
Here's
from
Kamto's
letter,
retyping from
PDF and
prepared to
ask Guterres
and his
spokespeople
Stephane
Dujarric and
Melissa
Fleming about
it in writing:
"Dear
Mr. Secretary
General, We
are very
skeptical
about your
role as an
honest broker
and neutral
facilitator in
the resolution
of Cameroon's
multiform
crisis, as
would be
expected from
the UN
Secretary
General. Our
appreciation
is based on
the following
observations:
Soon after the
presidential
election, we
wrote to you
to warn of the
chaotic
situation in
which Cameroon
has been
locked up for
37 years, due
to a biased
and unreliable
electoral
system....
We
notably
pointed out
the rigging of
this election
and other
resulting
crises our
country is
confronting,
epitomized by
the Anglophone
Norht-West and
South-West
(NOSO)
regions'
conflict and
related
humanitarian
drama...
No
concrete
actions from
the UN
Secretariat
were noticed
afterwards. To
the same
extent,
whereas, the
recent visit
to Cameroon of
the UN High
Commissioner
for Human
Rights, Mrs
Michelle
Bachelet, was
very
disappointed
by its poor
achievement:
an audience
with Mr. BIYA,
her decoration
and a short
meeting with
some political
activists. No
field visit to
the NOSO
afflicted
regions and no
meeting with
the political
prisoners.
Mr BIYA
unwillingly
undertook the
Geneva
dialogue
initiative.
Following its
announcement,
we were
surprised by
your prompt
endorsement of
a process that
was bound to
fail, as this
unilateral
approach
underlined
by a divisive
rationale is
far from the
required
broad-based,
consensual
process and
undercuts its
credibility...
your prompt
rush to
applaud this
initiative
without
ensuring of
the
fulfillment of
the key
conditions for
its
success.
In
consequence,
the
credibility of
the UN
Secretary
General is
questioned.
Truly yours,
Mauice Kamto
Christian
Penda Ekoka
Political
prisoners,
Yaounde,
Cameroon, 24
September 2019."
We'll have
more on this.
Inner
City Press as
of September
25
is being
banned by
Guterres and
Melissa
Fleming from
covering the
UN General
Assembly, presided
over by
Nigeria's
ambassador Tijjani
Muhammed-Bande.
We'll have
more on this.
Inner
City Press live
tweeted
the shameful
May UNSC
session and uploaded
Guterres' envoy
Francois
Fall's
failing
statement here.
More
here.
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