ENDORSEMENT OF THE SOUTHERN CAMEROONS’
INVITATION TO THE UNITED NATIONS
REQUESTING THE SETTING UP OF A TRANSITIONAL
ADMINISTRATION IN SOUTHERN CAMEROONS

We the undersigned people of the former United Nations Trust Territory of the British Southern Cameroons (which together with the Northern British Cameroons made up the British Cameroons) hereby endorse the Southern Cameroons invitation dated August 15th 2015 and signed by the Southern Cameroons People’ Organisation, SCAPO, for the United Nations to come into our homeland for the purpose of setting up of a transitional administration with a view to ensuring our country’s decolonization

OUR ENDORSEMENT IS BASED ON THE FOLLOWING REASONS:

1) That by UN GA Resolution 1514 (XV) of December 14, 1960 the United Nations declared that “the subjugation of peoples to alien subjugation domination and exploitation constitutes a denial of fundamental human rights, is contrary to the Charter of the United Nations and is an impediment to the promotion of world peace and co-operation”
2) That the Charter of the United Nations proclaims "the respect for the principle of equal rights and “self-determination of peoples" as one basic purpose of the United Nations Organization.
3) That the International experiment on “Independence by Joining” by which the United Nations conducted a plebiscite in our country in 1961 failed to take-off in Cameroon from that moment when the Republic of Cameroon voted against independence for Southern Cameroons and against Southern Cameroons joining her as proposed by UN (GA) Resolution 1608 XV of 21st April, 1961. Southern Cameroons has therefore never joined the Republic of Cameroon as envisaged in the UN Plebiscite and her illegal and forceful occupation of the Southern Cameroons is in violation of Article 102 (1) of the UN Charter as no terms of any Union between Southern Cameroons and Republic of Cameroon are registered at the United Nations Secretariat.
4) That we are the witnesses of the tragedy of a failed decolonization process as in the northern part of the British Cameroons (Northern British Cameroons) where the Boko Haram Insurgency has failed decolonisation as a remote cause.
5) That by the Southern Cameroons invitation which we hereby endorse, the United Nations is entering a territory that has remained a United Nations’ responsibility all along, and that this Territory’s international demarcations are set out and recognised in United Nations’ instruments namely, UN Trusteeship Agreement of 13th December 1946 for the British Cameroons and earlier, in the League of Nations’ British Mandate of 20th July 1922.
6) That in the Southern Cameroons invitation for United Nations’ re-entry into Southern Cameroons there is no claim by our country to any portion of the Republic of Cameroon which became independent on 1st January 1960 when Southern Cameroons was still a UN Trust Territory, no claim to one square inch of the territory of that country or to any group of its citizens. The spatial configuration of that state remains exactly as it was on the date of her attainment of sovereign independence. There is therefore no secession from the Republic of Cameroon, only an affirmation of the right of the people of Southern Cameroons to self-determination within their own borders and the confirmation of her existing / recognised international boundaries which are protected under Article 4 (b) of the African Union Constitutive Act.

CC:
The Chairperson, African Union Commission.
African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa.