Wildlife Summit:

Chantal Biya Invited to United Kingdom

Prime Minister Philemon Yang & UK Minister of State for Int’l Dev’t

Prime Minister Philemon Yang on behalf of the Head of State received the visiting United Kingdom Minister of State for Africa at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

            Philemon Yang and the visiting Minister of State for International Development of the United Kingdom, Harriett Baldwin on February 13, 2018 discussed a wide range of issues, one of them being the Commonwealth Summit that will take place in London, United Kingdom from April 19-20, 2018.

            The Prime Minister received the British woman at the Star Building on behalf of President Paul Biya. After the discussions, Harriett Baldwin told the press that she also invited the First Lady of Cameroon to attend the Wildlife Conference on Illegal Wildlife Crime that will take place in the United Kingdom in October 2018.

            The British envoy said she and the PM talked on a wide range of issues including the Brexit from the European Union and the Anglophone crisis.

             “In the United Kingdom, we have a long history of democratic discussion in terms of separatist movements we have had, especially the experience we have had with Scotland and Northern Ireland,” she said.

            Discussions between Prime Minister Yang and Harriet Baldwin also touched on ways the United Kingdom works with Cameroon in areas of economic development as well as current and planned UK business investments in Cameroon.

            Discussions equally touched on collaboration to tackle the Boko Haram terrorists in the Far North Region of Cameroon.

            She was on a working visit to Cameroon from February 12-14, 2018.

            She was on a working visit to Cameroon from February 12-14, 2018.

            During her stay here, the British Minister for African Affairs also met with the Minister Delegate at the Minrex in charge of Commonwealth Affairs and with some leaders of pro-Anglophone associations including notably the President of Fako lawyers association FAKLA, Barrister Agbor Balla, who was also the President of the now outlawed Anglophone Consortium.