The Post (Buea)
NEWS
16 June 2008
By Chris Mbunwe
The ninth General Assembly of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation, UNPO, which held May 16-17, resolved to press the UN to admit Southern Cameroons as a member of the world body of sovereign nations.
This is contained in the UNPO General Assembly Member Resolution dated Thursday, June 12.After examining and listening to all what Southern Cameroons has gone through for over 35 years under President Paul Biya's regime, namely; systematic and wanton repression, torture, arbitrary arrest, detention and imprisonment of SCNC activists, the UNPO resolved that it is high time Southern Cameroons statehood was restored.
In a four-point resolution, UNPO declares, "We, the UNPO General Assembly, unequivocally declare solidarity with the SCNC and the Southern Cameroonian people in their pacific struggle to restore their statehood and sovereign independence, build a democratic society and be masters of their own destiny.
Secondly, "We solemnly call, as a matter of urgency, on the European Parliament to debate the growing explosive situation between Southern Cameroons and La Républiqe du Cameroun and urge the European Union to mediate now to avoid the costly mediation of tomorrow on mass graves."
The UNPO also calls upon the UN to take "full responsibility for and complete its task of effective decolonisation of Southern Cameroons in conformity with article 76 (b) of the UN charter and UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 of 1960 before its 2nd decade on the eradication of all forms of colonialism runs out.
"And finally, we call upon the UN to admit Southern Cameroons as a member of its world body of sovereign nations."The UNPO General Assembly also noted that in spite of the growing number of deliberate acts of provocation, such as frequent arbitrary arrests, summary execution, looting, raping and other acts of intimidation, intolerance and impunity systematically carried out by the occupation forces against Southern Cameroonian people, the SCNC has remained faithful to its ideology of non-violence.
The UNPO also took cognizant of the fact that the Southern Cameroons was a distinct UN Trust Territory under United Kingdom administration, which became independent as La République du Cameroun on January 1, 1960.
The organisation says it is disturbed by the rapid rise in the number of educated young Southern Cameroonians fleeing their homeland as a consequence of the rising political insecurity and lack of opportunities for self-fulfillment, and the failure of the democratic world to protect these victims of political persecution.
The UNPO reiterated its firm commitment to the right to national self-determination of all peoples, democracy, conflict prevention as the logical instrument of building enduring peace, justice and international cooperation amongst peoples and nations, large and small.
The resolutions of the UNPO state clearly that it took all of these into consideration before tabling its submission of June 12 to the UN to admit Southern Cameroons as a member state of the United Nations.
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