Background
Engo, Paul Bamela was born on October 5, 1931 in Ebolowa, Cameroon. Son of Frederick and Elizabeth Ekoto (Nkoo) Engo.
Engo, Paul Bamela was born on October 5, 1931 in Ebolowa, Cameroon. Son of Frederick and Elizabeth Ekoto (Nkoo) Engo.
Business Level, Middle Temple Inn, London, 1958.
Crown counsel Legal Departments, Lagos, Nigeria and Cameroon, 1959-1961. Magistrate Southern Cameroon, 1961-1963. Member Federal Judicial Commission, Cameroon, 1961-1964.
Minister counsellor Cameroon Embassy, Bonn, Federal Republic of Germant, 1964, Washington, 1965-1968, Cameoon Permanent Mission to United Nations, 1968. Minister plenipotentiary, 1969-1973. Chairman plenipotentiary conference United Nations Convention, 19873-82.
Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, permanent representative of Cameroon United Nations Permanent Mission, New York City, since 1984. Part time lecturer Cameroon Institute for International Relations University Yaounde, 1973-1979, English Common Law National School Administration and Magistracy.
Legal adviser Cameroon Delaware State Conference, Cairo, 1964. Appointed technical adviser to Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1973. Chairman drafting committee United Nations Special Committee, 1966-1967, 6th committee, 1970, 1st sub-commission on peaceful uses of the sea-bed and ocean floor, 1971-1973, Presidential Commission on Law of the Sea, 1984, standing committee III Council for Namibia, 1984, African group General Assembly, 1984.
Vice chairman 6th committee 24th Session of United Nations General Assembly, 1969, Hunan Rights Commission United Nations, 1985-1986, Disarmamemt Commission, 1985-1988. Special representative of head of state 3d United Nations Plenipotentiary Conference on Law of the Sea, 1973. Rapporteur general, head Cameroon delegate O.A.U. Ministerial Conference at Lome, 1985.
Head delegate Council fir Namibia, Singapore, 1986. Vice president 42d Session General Assembly, 1987-1988. Vice president United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund governor board, since 1989.
Member Cameroonian and Nigerian Bars.
Avocations: music, photography, general reading. Represented Nigeria in the finals of the Melbourne Olympic Games in 1956, British Commonwealth Games in 1958, Great Britain against France, 1955, London against Moscow, 1954, Budapest and Prague, 1950, British Commonwealth against United States of America in Sidney, Australia, 1956.
Married Ruth Ngo-Tjega. Children: Pamela Ekoto, Youdi Harriet, Edjoa Bamela, Evina Abomo Nkolo, Teresa, Paul Bamela Junior, Susan Eyenga Mebanda.