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Has the country signed up to international agreements?

Cameroon has ratified more than 23 forest and environment-related international agreements. Furthermore, Cameroon has committed to new ongoing policy processes at the international level, including those in the areas of good governance, the protection of climatic balance and cross-border collaboration in the field of protected area management (VPAs, Kyoto Protocol, REDD, cross-border collaboration agreement).
The decisions to ratify conventions are published in the media (written press, radio, television and official gazette). Texts of those conventions are made available in various public services (legal service of the MINFOF). The list below provides some of them with their ratification or acceptation date.

Title	a. Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (1983) b. African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (1977) c. Convention on the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1982) d. Washington Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (1981) e. Agreement on joint regulations of the fauna and flora in the basin of Lake Chad (1977) f. Agreement on cooperation and consultation between the Central African States on the Conservation of Wildlife (1983) g. International Agreement on Tropical Timber (1985) h. Convention on Biological Diversity (1994) i. Framework Convention of UN on Climate Change (1994) j. United Nations Convention on the Fight against Desertification (1997) k. Kyoto Protocol to the Convention United Nations Framework on Climate Change (2002) l. Ramsar Convention on the Wetlands (2006) m. Brazzaville Treaty relating to the conservation and sustainable management of forest ecosystems in Central Africa (2005) n. Voluntary Partnership Agreement with EU (signed on 06 th May 2010) o. UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) p. International Labour Organisation
Date	1983, 1981, 1977, 1982, 1985, 1994, 1997, 2002, 2006, 1999, 2005 and 2010
Source	www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/declaration.html http://maindb.unfccc.int/public/country.pl?group=kyoto www.unodc.org/unodc/en/treaties/CAC/index.html www.cbd.int/countries/ www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/country_profiles.home?p_lang=en www.cites.org/eng/disc/parties/alphabet.shtml www.unccd.int/php/countryinfo.php?country=CMR www.illegal-logging.info/uploads/Falconer0609.pdf www.mdgmonitor.org/factsheets.cfm http://www.ramsar.org/cda/en/ramsar-home/main/ramsar/1_4000_0__
Language	Most of them in both official languages of Cameroon (French and English).
Completeness	VPA are not yet ratified by both EU Parliament and Cameroon national assembly. Some of these agreements are not reflected into national laws coupled with low ownership.