23, June 2022
Yaoundé: Delay in forming a new cabinet sign of Biya regime’s weakness 0
President Biya’s apparent inability to form a new cabinet is giving rise to fears deep within the political bureau of the ruling CPDM party and causing a fresh spasm of weakness that has been greeted by the leadership of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government.
A senior adviser to the Vice President of the Ambazonia Interim Government, Dr Patrick Ayuk said on Wednesday that failure on the part of the Francophone dominated government in Yaoundé to stop the Ambazonia resistance is an indication of an empty internal structure and weak quality.
Dr Patrick Ayuk furthered that both Prime Minister Dion Ngute and the 89-year-old President Biya should quit politics in French Cameroun to enable the two sister nations to sit and discuss the terms of separation.
The Southern Cameroons academic said all factors heralding the fall of a government are evident in Yaoundé and this is because of Southern Cameroons steadfastness and the resistance’s power to send Biya and his French Cameroun regime into disarray, break its will, and prevent the realization of its goals in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.
The Southern Cameroons political commentator stated that whatever be the composition of French Cameroun’s next cabinet, it would not change the Ambazonia Interim Government’s principled stance of choosing to put up resistance against it towards complete independence for the people of Southern Cameroons.
By Rita Akana
25, June 2022
EU top diplomat visits Iran in bid to revive nuclear talks 0
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell met Iran’s top diplomat on Saturday after arriving in Tehran for talks on efforts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
The surprise visit by Borrell, who arrived in the Iranian capital on Friday night, is aimed at getting the talks back on track three months after they stalled amid differences between Iran and the United States.
“Diplomacy is the only way to go back to full implementation of the deal and to reverse current tensions,” Borrell tweeted.
Borrell went into a meeting with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in the morning and was expected to hold talks with other Iranian officials later in the day, said the official news agency IRNA.
The Iran nuclear deal has been hanging by a thread since 2018, when then US president Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the accord and began imposing crippling economic sanctions on America’s arch enemy.
The administration of incumbent US President Joe Biden has sought to return to the agreement, saying it would be the best path with the Islamic republic.
The US pointman on Iran, Robert Malley, “reiterated firm US commitment to come back to the deal” over a meal with Borrell on the eve of his trip, according to the EU’s coordinator for the talks, Enrique Mora.
‘Meaningful diplomacy’
“We remain committed to the path of meaningful diplomacy, in consultation with our European partners,” Malley said later on his official Twitter account.
The talks, which began in April last year, aim to return the United States to the deal, including through lifting sanctions, while ensuring Iran’s full compliance with its nuclear commitments.
The negotiations stalled in March amid differences between Tehran and Washington, notably over a demand by Iran to remove its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from a US terror list.
“We are ready to conclude this agreement, and urge Iran to seize this diplomatic opportunity to conclude now, while this is still possible,” a French foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Friday.
Source: AFP