Martin Belinga Eboutou is a graduate, respectively of the Académie de Droit International and the Institute International D’administration Publique de Paris, France. Before coming to finalise his studies in Europe, he had studied Economy at the University of Kinshasa in the current Democratic Republic of Congo. Before his higher education, he had attended the Seminaries of the towns of Edea, Okono and Otélé. Curously, it is the same trajectory taken by Paul Biya, president of the Republic. Mr Martin Belinga Eboutou was born in the village of Nkilzok near the town of Sangmelima which is located in the South province on the 17th of February 1940. He is a career diplomat. He was the diplomatic adviser of the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu from 1980-1981. While working for the Cameroon government, he held the following functions: Chargé d’affaires at the embassy of Cameroon in Congo Brazzaville from 1970-74, service head at the department of international organisation at ministry of foreign affairs from 1974-84. He was also commercial adviser at the Embassy of Cameroon in Paris, France 1984-89.
The other functions that he has asumed are: chief of presidential protocol at the civil cabinet of the presidency of the republic 1989-96 and director of presidential civil cabinet at the presidency of the republic from 1996-97. And since December 1997, he is Cameroon’s ambassador at the United Nations in New York, USA[1][1]. Mr Eboutou lost his post at the presidency of the Republic of Cameroon in December 1997, immediately the union government was formed. He was replaced by Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo’o. It is rumoured that, he lost his post because of conflicts that he had developed with Chantal Biya, the wife of the head of state. Eboutou is also known to be a proud man, who believes in strict Bantu Betis tradition, which stipulates that, a chief must be respected or must force his subjects to respect him. And when the head of state mandated him to negotiate with the opposition, he decided to take things into his own hands. He decided that, the only party that the ruling CPDM party could negotiate with was the SDF, but not as equals. And within the SDF, he felt it was only the chair or the vice chair that were credible interlocutors of the government.
[1] Mr Martin B. Eboutou, has since been reapointed to his former post of Director of Cabinet at the presidency of the Republic.
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