Speaking to the press yesterday February 16 in Yaounde at the end of a one-hour audience with the Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, Ambassador Chamberlain also lauded Cameroon’s efforts to ensure freedoms to citizens. “I will go back to President Obama and Washington and tell them that your values are very closely aligned to ours,” she said.
Ambassador Eileen Chamberlain who was accompanied by the US Ambassador to Cameroon, His Excellency Robert P. Jackson, was on the second lap of a marathon visit to some state institutions dealing with issues related to human rights.
According to Communication Minister, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, the audience enabled the US envoy to understand how Cameroon’s communication is organised by the National Communication Council and the Ministry of Communication. “I also told her about the great number of private press organs existing without state censorship, oppositions’ access to the press during elections and the absence of political prisoners or journalists jailed for doing their work,” the Minister told the press.
The Human Rights Council is based in Geneva, Switzerland. It is the United Nation Organisation’s lead body for ensuring that governments promote and protect human rights.
