22 Nov 2011

UN / CAMEROON-NIGERIA BORDER

The Secretary-General today encouraged Cameroon and Nigeria to bring their landmark agreement to a successful conclusion following the commitment of both parties to finalize the demarcation of the common border by the end of 2012. UNTV

Posted at: November 22, 2011 6:30 pm

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STORY: UN / NIGERIA – CAMEROON BORDER
TRT: 1.34
SOURCE: UNTV 
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 22 NOVEMBER 2011, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

SHOTLIST:

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1.Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

22 NOVEMBER 2011, NEW YORK CITY

2.Wide shot, lateral view of the dais
3.SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
"I am confident that your two countries will continue to work together to allow both peoples to live in peace along the international dividing line. In order to ensure the successful completion of the exercise, I encourage you to maintain the same forward-looking approach that has helped you to overcome delicate legal and administrative obstacles."	
4.Wide shot, lateral view of the dais
5.SOUNDBITE (English) Maurice Kamto, Minister Delegate at the Ministry of Justice of Cameroon:
"Peace will continue to prevail between the two countries and in the Bakassi region specifically. Moreover, this very unique dispute settlement will stand forever for the two countries and the United Nations and serve as a model today and tomorrow from other states to settle their own disputes."	
6.Wide shot, lateral view of the dais
7.SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammed Bello Adoke, Minister of Justice of Nigeria:
"With the support of the United Nations both countries have successfully turned an issue which could have been an issue of potential conflict to an opportunity of deepening historical bounds of brotherhood and to advance the social, political and economic well-being of our people to the admiration of the entire international community."	
8.Wide shot, lateral view of the dais
9.Wide shot, Ban, Kampto and Adoke shake hands

STORYLINE:

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (22 November) hosted a meeting with high-level delegations of Cameroon and Nigeria to review the progress of the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission (CNMC).

The Secretary-General encouraged the Parties to bring their landmark agreement to a successful conclusion following the commitment of Cameroon and Nigeria to finalize the cartographic demarcation of the common border by the end of 2012.

Ban said he was confident that the two countries "will continue to work together to allow both peoples to live in peace along the international dividing line."

He encouraged both sides to "maintain the same forward-looking approach" that has so far helped overcome "delicate legal and administrative obstacles."

The Cameroonian representative, Maurice Kamto, said that thanks to the United Nations' (UN) facilitating role, "peace will continue to prevail between the two countries and in the Bakassi region specifically."

He remarked that "this very unique dispute settlement will stand forever for the two countries and the United Nations and serve as a model today and tomorrow from other states to settle their own disputes."

Nigeria's Minister of Justice Mohammed Bello Adoke told the meeting that with the support of the UN, both countries have turned an issue of potential conflict "to an opportunity of deepening historical bounds of brotherhood and to advance the social, political and economic well-being of our people to the admiration of the entire international community."

Cameroon and Nigeria have, to date, reached agreement on more than 1,700 km of an estimated total distance of 1,950 km of border between the countries.  The two countries have also agreed on the delimitation of the maritime border and decided to close the issue in Yaoundé in March 2011.  Withdrawal and transfer of authority in the Lake Chad area, along the land border and in Bakassi Peninsula were progressively finalized between 2004 and 2008.