The
US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for African Affairs, Amanda
Dory, was received by the Minister of External Relations in Yaounde.
“Robust
Support” from the United States of America (U.S.A.) to Cameroon’s
Defence Forces is “arriving” within the framework of previously planned
and future projects between the US and Cameroon in the fight against the
terrorist group, Boko Haram, in the Far North Region.
The visiting US Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defence for African Affairs, Amanda Dory, was speaking
yesterday, March 10, 2015, in Yaounde after an audience with the
Minister of External Relations, Pierre Moukoko Mbonjo. She equally
revealed that the US is providing diplomatic support in terms of
engagement in the UN Security Council for the awaited resolution
authorising the deployment of a Multinational Joint Task Force (MJTC) by
the African Union against Boko Haram.
More so, Amanda Dory and her delegation,
comprising defence officials from Washington D.C. and Stuttgart
(Federal Republic of Germany), lauded the leadership that Cameroon has
shown in terms of peacekeeping deployment, particularly under the United
Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in the
Central African Republic (MINUSCA). Long-time maritime security
engagement by both countries and Cameroon’s leadership in the Gulf of
Guinea also featured in the discussions. “The Code of Conduct is
something we have found much time collaborating on,” Amanda Dory
revealed.
Earlier on, Minister Pierre Moukoko
Mbonjo received the designated Ambassador of the Democratic and Popular
Republic of Algeria, H.E. Merzak Bedjaoui. The latter came to present
advance copies of his letters of credence as incoming Algerian
Ambassador to Cameroon. Ambassador Merzak Bedjaoui was appointed as
Algeria’s Ambassador to Cameroon last November 2014. Until then, he
served as the Director of Western Europe in his country’s Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. He had equally served in several diplomatic missions,
especially as Ambassador to Sweden from 2004.
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