IRIC: Steering Committee Adopts 2019 Roadmap

Members of the Steering Committee of the International Relations Institute of Cameroon (IRIC) meeting in an ordinary session on January 22, 2019 discussed budgetary related issues of the institution and an operational roadmap for 2019. The session was chaired by the Minister Delegate to the Minister of External Relations in charge of Relations with the Commonwealth, Felix Mbayu, on behalf of the Minister of External Relations, Lejeune Mbella Mbella.

Minister Felix Mbayu in his opening remarks that paved the way for deliberations, said the session was basically a budgetary session within the context of a changing world where there is a significant paradigm shift in theory and reality.

“The Head of State while receiving New Year Wishes from the members of the Diplomatic Corps mentioned a series of significant changes and tendencies in the world. We therefore have to work to ensure that IRIC and its course structure remain relevant and adapt to this changing world. In the process of doing these reforms, we equally need to make budgetary adjustments to meet up,” he said.

Going by the Minister Delegate, IRIC is the window through which the diplomatic and educational image of Cameroon is opened at the international scene, why training of students in the establishment need to be updated and adapted with the emerging world political landscape. “IRIC is a laboratory where plenipotentiaries are trained, nurtured and shaped.

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