UNITED NATIONS, June 27 (Xinhua) -- An agreement for a roadmap to a 2025 accord to peacefully resolve a border dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria was hailed on Thursday by a UN spokesperson.
"The extraordinary session of the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission reached a milestone today (Thursday) toward the peaceful completion of the border demarcation," said Stephane Dujarric, chief spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
The accord was reached at the sixth extraordinary session held in Yaounde, Cameroon, on June 26-27. The commission was first established in 2002 by then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the request of the leaders of Cameroon and Nigeria to address sovereignty claims over the Bakassi Peninsula.
Dujarric described the agreement as "an example that diplomacy takes time, but this is part of a peaceful resolution of conflict, and it is good news." ■
