Cameroon-FAO : Prospecting Cooperation Ties

Cameroon joined the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations in 1960 and has since then partnered with the organisation in the promotion of food security mechanisms. Cooperation ties between the two parties have centred on exchanging ideas on better combating food insecurity.  It is against this backdrop of further enhancing ties that the Minister of External Relations, Mbella Mbella on April 22, 2024 received in audience the Director-General of FAO, Dr. Qu Dongyu, on a working visit in Cameroon. The Director-General expressed appreciation towards Cameroon’s engagements in promoting food security in the country and the sub region. Cameroon is currently a member of all non-elective statutory bodies of FAO and is a party to all of FAO's Conventions and Treaties, something the Director-General of the UN agency also expressed appreciation. 
Visiting Cameroon for the first time since his election into office, Dr. Qu Dongyu used the opportunity to thank the government of Cameroon for having supported his candidacy. The Chinese national was elected for a first four-year term in 2019 (2019-2023) and is currently serving his second term which ends in 2027, and Cameroon supported the election of Mr. Qu Dongyu for his two terms. The smile on his face and the convivial atmosphere in which the two exchanged ideas better explains the state of cooperation between Cameroon and the institution. In the Qu Dongyu era, Cameroon has had nine international civil servants, six of whom were in the professional level, and were subject to the application of the quota principle.
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