The Minister Delegate to the Minister of External Relations in charge of cooperation with the Commonwealth, Felix Mbayu, received in audience, on March 5, the special representative for Denmark’s candidacy to the United Nations (UN) Security Council, Holger Nielsen
At the end of this audience, the former Danish minister declared that he came to seek Cameroon’s support for his country’s candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for the period 2025 and 2026. “Denmark is a candidate for the United Nations Security Council and we hope to be able to obtain the support of Cameroon. So we are visiting Cameroon to also listen and hear what he wants us to do. Denmark and Cameroon are two countries that have a common interest in maintaining international public order. We will support each other in this perspective,” Holger Nielsen told the press. Cameroon “is a very important country with which Denmark maintains close relations,” he added. In Cameroon, Denmark operates in particular through the company Maersk, the world’s leading container transporter.
The former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Jeppe Kofod, announced his country’s candidacy during the UN General Assembly in September 2022. “Denmark is a champion of Security Council reform, after having been a champion of the UN development system,” he declared on this occasion, to justify why his country wanted to sit on the UN Security Council. It must be said that this European country has a long tradition of participation in international cooperation bodies. He specifically participated in the first United Nations peacekeeping mission in 1948, following the Second World War.
As a reminder, the Security Council has the main responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. It consists of 15 members: five permanent members (China, United States, Russia, France and United Kingdom) and 10 non-permanent members, five of whom are elected each year by the General Assembly for a two-year term.
