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Cameroon: Politics and Government

Commons · Question 6472 · Tabled 3 Jun 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 12 Jun 2026

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Asked by Tonia Antoniazzi

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what her Department's policy is on the status of Southern Cameroon following the 2009 African Commission ruling in Gunme v Cameroon.

Answer

Answered by Chris Elmore, 12 Jun 2026

The UK has historically recognised the outcome of the 1961 UN-organised plebiscite, in which the territories now forming the North-West and South-West regions voted to join the Republic of Cameroon, as endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly Resol...