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Nigeria: We'll Abide By Green Tree Agreement - Imoke
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Leadership (Abuja)
22 May 2008
Posted to the web 22 May 2008
Edem Edem
Abuja
Cross River State government has reiterated its commitment to cooperate with the United Nations (UN) in the implementation of the Green Tree Agreement on the peaceful handing over of Bakassi peninsula in August, 2008, to Cameroon.
Governor Liyel Imoke stated this when he received the UN Observer Team from the United Nations Office for West Africa led by the senior military adviser, Brigadier Danilo Paiva. He disclosed that the resettlement of Bakassi indigenes was receiving tremendous attention despite significant challenges associated with what he described as a new experience in the resettlement process.
The governor expressed confidence that peace would be maintained in the area in consonance with the Green Tree Agreement reached in 2002 with the cooperation of the UN Observer Team. Leader of the team, Paiva, said they had visited Bakassi Peninsula and were prepared to offer full cooperation with ECOWAS and care for Cross Border issues with the West African sub-region.
Leader of the Nigerian delegation at the Nigeria- Cameroon Mixed Commission and director general, Border Communities Development Commission (Cross River), Mrs. Nella Andem Ewa, said so far, the maritime boundary, bordering Nigeria and Cameroon had been resolved, while resolution on the land boundary between the two countries was underway.
Ewa said UN was working into the development and management of Bakassi as partners in the resettlement process, having seen the agreement between Nigeria and Cameroon as a model of settling border issues, which other countries in conflict should emulate.
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The United Nations Observer Team, based in Dakar, Senegal, is made up of foreign soldiers and nationals to monitor the process and progress of implementing the Green Tree Agreement as accepted by Nigeria and Cameroon.
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