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After presenting two significant and indeed soul-searching statements at the ongoing sixty-fifth session of the UN General Assembly, President Paul Biya on Saturday September 25 started the day with the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon for talks, the second in the series since his arrival in New York for the high-level meeting devoted to the Millennium Development Goals.
Besides other Heads of State like H.E. Mrs Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia, Ernes Jonnie Bai Koroma of Sierra-Leone, the Foreign Affairs Minister of Japan, H.E..Seiji Maehara among other dignitaries, with whom the UN Chief Scribe met and held important discussions on national and other related issues, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his talks with President Biya, as anyone would expect, must have delved into crucial issues concerning not only Cameroon and the Central African region, but also matters of peace and cooperation between African countries and the developed world.
President Biya’s meeting with the UN Secretary General was followed by another important tête-à-tête, this time with the US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, H.E. Johnny Carson. This meeting, which lasted about an hour held at the Wardoff Astoria Hotel where the Cameroon Presidential couple are being lodged during this mission to the United Nations Headquarters.
When it was all over between the two dignitaries, the US Assistant Secretary Of State for Africa , Johnny Carson disclosed to the Cameroon press that he has very useful discussions with President Paul Biya whose country is a wonderful cooperation partner with the US and catalyst of peace in the Central African region. They also delved into the political situation in the Gulf of Guinea with a deep concern for peace to reign so as to ensure political stability and development.
Asked about African nation’s concern about its non membership of the Social Security Council, the Assistant Secretary regretted the absence but even though as an individual, he was incapable of altering the trend, he believed something would be done about it in the nearest future. President Paul Biya’s meetings with UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon and the US Assistant Secretary of State for African after a hectic week of activities at the UN General session focusing on very crucial matters concerning the world once again portrays the challenge leaders and the led face in the onerous task of total commitment to all that which is undertaken at national and international levels in the interest of compatriots and mankind at large.
