The Cameroonian authorities announced on Monday, January 23, that they had appointed “no external mediator” for the resolution of the crisis raging in the two separatist English-speaking regions of the North West and South West.
“Cameroon has not entrusted any foreign country or external organization with the role of mediator or facilitator to resolve the crisis,” said a statement signed by government spokesman Emmanuel René Sadi.
This clarification was made following a statement emanating last weekend from Canadian diplomacy, which is said to be playing a facilitating role in this conflict between Yaoundé and the English-speaking separatists since 2016, which has already thousands of deaths.
“Canada is playing a role of facilitator for a global, peaceful and political resolution of the conflict”, according to the words of the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mélanie Joly, who also underlines that “meetings have already taken place in Montebello and Mont -Tremblant in Quebec, as well as in Toronto in Ontario”.
Canadian diplomacy assures that these meetings would have “allowed the different parties to negotiate and establish a roadmap towards a potential peace agreement”.
Some sources suggest that Canada reacted after the Cameroonian government communiqué and insisted that its “previous communiqué still stands”.
By OMA Newsletter N° 1022 of 01/25/2023
Article published under the direction of Dr. Najib Kettani
The OMA, NGO with an Intercontinental vocation
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