Cameroon: UN Envoy Hails Cameroon's Anti-Terrorism Law

The Executive Director of UN's Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate, Jean-Paul Laborde, was received on Monday at the Ministry of External Relations in Yaounde.

The Law to Suppress Acts of Terrorism adopted by Parliament on December 4, 2014 and later promulgated by the President of the Republic, Paul Biya, on December 23, 2014, has been hailed by visiting Executive Director of UN's Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (C.T.E.D.), Jean-Paul Laborde. "It is an anti-terrorism law that merits to exist," he told the press yesterday after an audience with the Minister Delegate in the Ministry of External Relations in charge of Relations with the Islamic World, Adoum Gargoum.

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