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Date: Mon Jul 28 2008 - 05:00:47 EDT
US, China, UK, Germany,France Back Cameroon Bakassi Ownership
Sun, Jul 27 2008, 12:17 GMT
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US, China, UK, Germany,France Back Cameroon Bakassi Ownership
YAOUNDE, Cameroon -(Dow Jones)- Government officials from the U.S., China,
U.K., Germany and France met with the Cameroon government Friday to throw
their support behind Cameroon's ownership of the oil-rich Bakassi
peninsula, state-run Cameroon Radio Television reported Saturday.
There have been four deadly clashes between Cameroonian forces and an armed
militia opposing transfer of the territory in recent months, CRTV reported.
The U.S. Ambassador to Cameroon, Janet Elizabeth Garvey and her peers from
China, U.K. and Germany, met with Cameroon's Minister of External Relations
Henri Eyebe Ayissi, after French Ambassador Georges Serre earlier this week
expressed concern about the multiple clashes on the Bakassi peninsula.
All the envoys, CRTV reported "are in support of Cameroon's ownership of
Bakassi because they're members of countries who witnesed the signing of
the Green Tree Accord in October 2006 between Cameroon's President Paul
Biya and former his Nigerian counterpart Olusegun Obasanjo under the
auspices of former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan."
The CRTV report comes after an attack on Cameroon forces by a militia group
Tuesday, the latest of four in recent months which have claimed a total of
37 lives on both sides since the first in November 2007. Ten assailants and
two Cameroonian soldiers were killed in the latest confrontation and eight
of the attackers captured, according to Cameroon's Defence Minister Remy Ze
Meka.
A spokesman for a group, the Niger Delta Defence and Security Council,
which opposes Cameroon's ownership of the Bakassi, had told Dow Jones
Newswires Friday that it attacked the Cameroonian forces and lost four of
its men.
NDDSC Commander Ebi Dari had told Dow Jones Newswires that his group wants
the presidents of Cameroon and Nigeria to renegotiate and redefine the
status of the peninsula.
Known to be rich in offshore oil, Bakassi had been under dispute and armed
incursions between Cameroon and neighboring oil giant Nigeria for nearly
two decades. But a 2002 ruling by the International Court of Justice ended
the struggle and attributed peninsula to Cameroon.
A United Nations-led Mixed Nigeria-Cameroon Commission has been applying
the ICJ verdict by handing over pieces of the territory to Cameroon, with
20% still under Nigerian control. The total handover of the peninsula is
expected to end on Aug. 14, 2008.
-By Emmanuel Tumanjong, contributing to Dow Jones Newswires;
+237-7773-1930; tnuel@yahoo.com
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