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Member state

Cameroon at the United Nations

Flag of Cameroon
Flag of Cameroon.svg by (of code) -xfi (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1960-09-20
ISO 3166-1
CM / CMR
Admitted by
A/RES/1476 (XV)
Formerly
Cameroon, until 10 March 1975

International organisations

Every organisation this state belongs to that is compiled here, with the date it joined. Membership is resolved against this site’s own list of member states rather than taken from a query.

OrganisationJoined
United Nations 1960-09-20

Service on principal organs

Elected terms as recorded by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. A year marked pending is one the Library publishes as a partial list because its elections have not yet been held.

Economic and Social Council

2025 2024 2023 2019 2018 2017 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2002 2001 2000 1991 1990 1989 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1967 1966

Human Rights Council

2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006

Security Council

2003 2002 1975 1974

Permanent representatives

4 recorded. Full list

NameFromTo
Salomon Eheth 2020-092018-03-01
Michel Tommo Monthé 2008-09-08in office / not recorded
Anatole Marie Nkou 2008-05in office / not recorded
Martin Belinga Eboutou 1998-032007-12

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Cameroon to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Cameroon to the United Nations, 22 East 73rd Street, New York, NY 10021
National holiday
20 May
Accredited diplomats
12

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1976
Adult literacy rate 72.55 2018
CO2 emissions per capita 0.35342 2024
GDP 5.89335e+10 2025
GNI per capita 1,860 2025
Life expectancy at birth 63.968 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 1.00913 2024
Net official development assistance received 9.40269e+08 2023
Population 2.98793e+07 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 408,613 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 140,366 2025

World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0. The sparkline shows the shape of each run from its first reported year; the number beside it carries the magnitude, and there is deliberately no axis on it.

General Debate statements

60 statements to the General Debate since 1960, 178,159 words in all. The longest was 1960, at 7,881 words, delivered by Mr. OKALA.

Of the 28 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×11, President ×6, UN Representative ×6, Minister of Foreign Affairs ×4. Earlier years are excluded because UN records do not consistently identify a speaker’s post before 1994, and counting those years as though they did would make any state look as though it sent nobody senior.

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Emblems and location

Coat of arms of Cameroon
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Cameroon.svg (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Cameroon
Location. CMR orthographic.svg by Addicted04 (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

79 actions recorded by the Secretary-General as depositary. Only treaties whose participant counts match the depositary’s own stated totals contribute rows.

TreatySignedRatified or acceded
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations - 20 Oct 1961 d
Vienna Convention on the Representation of States in their Relations with International Organizations of a Universal Character - 23 Mar 1984 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 30 Apr 1992 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 4 Mar 1977 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 21 Aug 1963 22 May 1967
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning Acquisition of Nationality 21 Aug 1963 -
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes 21 Aug 1963 -
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports 21 Mar 1988 -
Convention on the Rights of the Child 25 Sep 1990 11 Jan 1993
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families 15 Dec 2009 -
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 1 Oct 2008 28 Sep 2023
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 6 Feb 2007 -
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 12 Dec 1966 24 Jun 1971
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 27 Jun 1984 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 27 Jun 1984 a
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 27 Jun 1984 a
Convention on the non-applicability of statutory limitations to war crimes and crimes against humanity - 6 Oct 1972 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 1 Nov 1976 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 6 Jun 1983 23 Aug 1994
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 19 Dec 1986 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 6 May 1960 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 13 May 2004 3 Feb 2006
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 19 Sep 1967 a
Protocol Bringing under International Control Drugs Outside the Scope of the Convention of 13 July 1931 for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs, as amended by the Protocol signed at Lake Success, New York, on 11 December 1946 - 20 Nov 1961 d
Protocol for Limiting and Regulating the Cultivation of the Poppy Plant, the Production of, International and Wholesale Trade in, and use of Opium - 15 Jan 1962 d
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 15 Jan 1962 a
Convention on psychotropic substances - 5 Jun 1981 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 30 May 1974 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 27 Feb 1989 28 Oct 1991
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods - 11 Oct 2017 a
United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts - 11 Oct 2017 a
Agreement establishing the African Development Bank 8 Oct 1963 7 May 1964
Convention on Transit Trade of Land-locked States 10 Aug 1965 -
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 20 Jun 1977 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 8 Jul 1980 18 Aug 1981
Customs Convention on Containers - 24 Sep 1963 a
United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978 - 21 Oct 1993 a
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea 29 Sep 2009 11 Oct 2017
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 1 May 1961 A
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences - 15 Jun 1976 a
United Nations Convention on Conditions for Registration of Ships 29 Dec 1986 -
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials - 15 May 1964 A
International Agreement for the Establishment of the University for Peace - 16 Aug 1982 a
Statutes of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology - 27 Apr 2006 a
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 - 20 Feb 2006 a
International Cocoa Agreement, 2001 5 Oct 2001 30 Jun 2003
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006 13 Feb 2007 21 Aug 2009
International Cocoa Agreement, 2010 26 Mar 2012 -
Protocol amending the Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926 - 27 Jun 1984 A
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 17 Jul 1998 -
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism - 6 Feb 2006 a
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 13 Dec 2000 6 Feb 2006
United Nations Convention against Corruption 10 Dec 2003 6 Feb 2006
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 9 Mar 1988 a
International Convention Against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries 21 Dec 1990 26 Jan 1996
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 8 Jun 1992 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 21 Mar 2005 a
Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction 2 May 2025 -
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea - 30 Jul 2001 a
Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Seabed Authority - 28 Aug 2002 a
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 19 Feb 1988 a
United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration 11 May 2017 18 Jun 2018
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques - 18 Apr 2011 a
Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects (with Protocols I, II and III) - 7 Dec 2006 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 14 Jan 1993 16 Sep 1996
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 16 Nov 2001 6 Feb 2006
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 3 Dec 1997 19 Sep 2002
Convention on Cluster Munitions 15 Dec 2009 12 Jul 2012
Central African Convention for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons, their Ammunition and all Parts and Components that can be used for their Manufacture, Repair and Assembly 19 Nov 2010 30 Jan 2015
Arms Trade Treaty 3 Dec 2014 18 Jun 2018
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 14 Oct 1994 29 May 1997
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade 11 Sep 1998 20 May 2002
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 5 Oct 2001 19 May 2009
Minamata Convention on Mercury 24 Sep 2014 10 Mar 2021
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 30 Aug 1989 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 9 Feb 2001 a
Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes - 1 Nov 2022 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 14 Jun 1992 19 Oct 1994
Multilateral Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation of Copyright Royalties 13 Dec 1979 -

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
A/RES/80/282 - yes
A/RES/80/286 - yes
A/RES/80/296 - yes
A/RES/80/293 B - yes
A/RES/80/294 - yes
A/RES/80/293 A - yes
A/RES/80/297 - non-voting
A/RES/80/299 - non-voting

Provenance

Every fact on this page, with where it came from and how sure we are.

AttributeValueSourceConfidenceFetched
iso2CM wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901952+00:00
iso3CMR wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901963+00:00
m49120 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.134698+00:00
nameCameroon wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901933+00:00
un_admission_date1960-09-20 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901942+00:00
unsd_nameCameroon un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.134708+00:00

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