Equatorial
Guinea Slams French Prosecution,
ICP Asks Why Not Cameroon's
Biya, Francophony
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Photos
UNITED NATIONS,
August 14 – Equatorial Guinea
won a seat on the UN Security
Council, getting 185 votes
from the UN's 193 member
states. The country's
Ambassador Anatolio Ndong Mba
mentioned that figure
repeatedly in a press
conference in the UN on August
14, including when asked if
France was among the “Yes”
votes. (He said the French
ambassador told him he would
support Equatorial Guinea).
The press
conference was to denounce the
embezzlement prosecution of
the country's vice president,
son of President Obiang, in
France. Alamy photos here.
Ndong Mba said that France,
and Switzerland too, had made
their own money in Central
Africa. Inner City Press
asked, among other things,
if Ndong Mba thought
France went after former
Spanish colony Equatorial
Guinea rather than “its” long
time leaders, Paul Biya in
Cameroon and the Bongo family
in Gabon.
Ndong Mba,
ever the diplomat, said his
country might want to join the
Commonwealth. He lashed out at
Transparency International and
at mercenaries. Will these be
topics of Equatorial Guinea's
“thematic debates” when it has
the monthly presidency of the
Security Council? We'll see.
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