Cameroon that joined the United Nations Organisation (UNO) on September 20, 1960, will this Monday October 25 join the other 191 member countries to celebrate the 65th Day of the UN. Cameroon will be celebrating fruitful development cooperation ties translated into concrete reality through the 18 agencies of the United Nations System working in the country.
Information from Cameroon’s Ministry of External Relations indicates that after consultations with the government, representatives of donor organisations and the civil society organisations, the UN identified five priority areas of cooperation with Cameroon spanning through 2008 to 2012. The five areas that add more vigour to the UN Day celebrations include governance through support to public institutions and civil society organisations and sustainable growth through supporting the national activity that deals with drawing up and executing employment policies. Social development is one of the key areas of UN intervention in Cameroon through support to public institutions to ensure better education, health and social protection for all, prevention and management of crisis and the environment. Each of the UN agencies under the general guidance of the Resident Coordinator of the UN System in Cameroon and the Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Thierry Mertens, has committed itself to boost development in Cameroon within its area of competence.
The UN Day celebrations whose hallmark is today, is the culmination of sporting activities, educative talks and debates over the media to let the Cameroonian public better understand the organisation and its areas of intervention in the country. The work of the UN in Cameroon is based on its three pillars that are development, collective peace and security and finally human rights and the state of law.
