UN General Assembly
1960

On coming to this rostrum for the first time in the general debate to add my country’s voice to those of all the speakers preceding me, I should like, on behalf of my delegation, to discharge first of all a sacred duty entrusted to me by Mr. Ahmadou Ahidjo, the President of the Republic — whom so many of you heard in certain Committees of this Assembly in 1958 and 1959, when the future of my country was under discussion — and by the Camerounian Government under title leadership of Mr. Charles Assail. The object of my statement will be to tell you, in simple terms but as fully as possible, the manner in which Cameroun entered upon its independence on 1 January 1960,