External Relations: Fostering Diplomacy For Improved Cooperation

External Relations Minister, Lejeune Mbella Mbella encouraged his staff to promote Cameroon’s diplomacy as he received 2018 New Year Wishes on January 10. 

The Minister of External Relations, Lejeune Mbella Mbella, has exhorted his staff to constantly engage in activities relating to improving the country’s diplomatic and consular relations at the international scene for apt cooperation ties with other countries and international bodies.

He urged his staff on January 10, 2018 in Yaounde as he received New Year Wishes from them flagged by the Minister Delegate at the Ministry of External Relations in charge of Cooperation with the Commonwealth, Joseph Dion Ngute.

The intense diplomatic activities in 2017 according to Minister Mbella Mbella recorded resounding successes with benefits felt in the political, humanitarian, social and cultural development of the country. He cited the first forum on the diaspora organised in Yaounde in June during which it was recommended that a secretariat in charge of the diaspora be created.

“Following the instructions from the President and in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration, we were able to ensure the safe return of illegal migrants in Libya back to the country. We also tried to facilitate their inclusion into the social and economic life of the country,” he stated. Earlier, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of External Relations, Felix Mbayu, while extending best wishes to the Minister and the Minister Delegates in charge of Relations with the Commonwealth and Islamic World,...