A Macron Advisor Explains The Strange Reception Of Biya

Invited to the climate summit by Emmanuel Macron, the head of state was welcomed by Cameroon's ambassador to France.

The reactions on the social networks make you believe a diplomatic incident. One more in the troubled history between France and Cameroon.

Traveling to Paris, where he took part yesterday at the summit on the climate "One Planet Summit", the Head of State was welcomed Monday at the bottom of the bridge, at the airport of Bourget, by the ambassador of Cameroon in France, Samuel Mvondo Ayolo, also member of the official suite of the President of the Republic for this visit.

After Paul Biya's undiplomatic reception in 2013, while on a working visit to France at Orly airport by Lejeune Mbella Mbella, Cameroon's ambassador to France at the time, the controversy is still simmering on the furnaces.
A Macron Advisor Explains The Strange Reception Of Biya
After François Hollande, Emmanuel Macron, "the young president", he decided to apply the same sweet and sour recipe to the "African patriarch"? The ticklish nationalism of Cameroonians has been fiercely on the subject since yesterday.

"After the humiliation of Paul Biya in Côte d'Ivoire by President Macron recently, no French official has deigned to welcome him on his arrival in France Monday. It is the ambassador of Cameroon in France who welcomed him under the cold, enrage a surfer.


"That's the balance of power. When we are a small state against France, we are treated like this, "adds another. Yet another gibbered at the "whims" of Macron, renamed "Macro", against the "baobab" Paul Biya.

Contacted yesterday, Elena Ponomareva, political advisor and press at the Embassy of France in Cameroon, believes there is nothing to whip a cat. "Several dozen heads of state participate in this summit. A particular or official reception device was not planned when they arrived in Paris. All are welcomed in the same way.

This was already the case for Cop 21, "she explains. On websites of other African presidencies, these comments tend to be confirmed. In the case of Chad, it is reported, for example, that Idriss Déby Itno - whose pride as an African is proven - was greeted on his descent by Chad's ambassador to France, Dr Amine Abba Sidick.

The Paris Climate Summit, held two years to the day after the Paris Agreement, intends to continue the effort by bringing together the actors of public and private finance. The aim is to think about ways to innovate, support and accelerate the fight against climate change.

The event is being held at the initiative of French President Emmanuel Macron, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres. The work was organized around four panels: changing the scale of finance for climate action, greening finance for a sustainable economy, accelerating local and regional action for the climate, strengthening public policies for the ecological and solidarity transition.

Grand absent from this mini Cop, US President Donald Trump, who was represented by the charge d'affaires of the embassy in Paris. The United States withdrew on 1 June 2017 from the Paris Climate Agreement. Xi Jinping (China), Angela Merkel (Germany) and Vladimir Putin (Russia) also shone for their absence yesterday at the "One Planet Summit".  A Macron Advisor Explains The Strange Reception Of Biya


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