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Achille Bassilekin III (born March 20, 1969 in Yaounde) is a Cameroonian politician. He has been Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises, Social Economy and Handicrafts since 4 January 2019.

Family
Achille Bassilekin III is married and has two children.

Formation
He graduated from the Institute of International Relations of Cameroon, where he obtained a master's degree as well as a doctorate in international relations. He also holds a Master's degree in International Business from the Institute of International Studies of the Complutense University of Madrid.

He is a laureate of several international academic institutions:


 * The Diplomatic School of Madrid;
 * Beijing Diplomatic Institute (Chin a);
 * The International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg (France);
 * The International Institute of Public Administration of Paris;
 * The Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.

He is fluent in French, Spanish, English and has a knowledge of German (Z-DAF). In addition, he is the author of several articles and research papers on international relations and international trade in particular.

Within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Between 1993 and 1997, he was Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the United Nations and Multilateral Cooperation Directorate. During these years, it contributes to the strengthening of cooperation links between Cameroonian territorial collectivities and foreign territorial collectivities. It thus supports twinning initiatives and facilitates the development of Cameroonian non-governmental cooperation.

From 1997 to 2001, he served as Chief of Service in the Asia and Pacific Affairs Directorate. In this context, he will work on bilateral relations with China as well as the preparation of Cameroon's participation in the first China-Africa summit in Beijing.

Within the ACP Group
In 2001, he joined the General Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of Countries (ACP Group) and was appointed Economic Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of the ACP Group in Geneva to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the UN and other international organizations. He then became Deputy Head of this permanent mission between 2008 and 2010. Its day-to-day work will revolve mainly around the WTO Doha Round negotiations.

In January 2010, he was appointed Deputy Secretary-General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP Group) and Head of the Sustainable Economic Development and Trade Department. Also in this capacity, he will prepare the position of the 79 Member States of the ACP Group on the negotiations of Economic Partnership Agreements with the European Union.

The protocols of ACP commodities (sugars, cocoa, cotton, fisheries, etc.) as well as other issues such as climate change, industrialization, private sector development and investment will be the fields of its daily action.

Within the ACP Secretariat, he led the extension of the regional offices of the Enterprise Development Centre, including the opening of the Central Africa Regional Office in Yaounde, as well as advocacy for the establishment of the European Investment Bank Regional Office for Central Africa. He also contributed to the reflection on the future of the ACP group in view of the end of the Cotonou Agreement, and the advent of the organisation of ACP States..

In 2014 he was appointed Head of the Department of Administration, Finance and Human Resources cumulatively with his functions as Head of the Department of Sustainable Economic Development and Trade.

In Government
In 2015, Achille Bassilekin III was appointed Secretary General of the Ministry of Trade of Cameroon until June 2018, when he was appointed Secretary General of the Ministry of External Relations.

On 4 January 2019, he was appointed Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises, Social Economy and Crafts,,.

Decorations and Awards

 * Knight of the National Order of Valour of Cameroon

Books and Publications

 * Achille Bassilekin, Cameroon Export Strategy and European Union Market Access Mapping, ACP House, Brussels, 20-21 February 2018; (Paper presented at the TradeComII Workshop on: Sharing Good Practices on Trade and Investment);
 * Achille Bassilekin, Impact de la diplomatie commerciale sur l'émergence du Cameroun, Paris, l'Harmattan, 348 pages, January 2018; (contribution to the book: A diplomacy at the service of the emergence of Cameroon);
 * Achille Bassilekin, Africa and Global Trade issues, Cape Town, South Africa, 22-24 October 2017; (Paper presented at the meeting of the Informal Group of Commonwealth African Trade Negotiators);
 * Achille Bassilekin, Diplomacy and economic intelligence: relevance and requirement of the anchoring of Cameroonian diplomacy, Yaoundé, MINREX, October 2016; (Paper presented at the Colloquium on Economic Intelligence in International Relations);
 * Achille Bassilekin, ACP-EU cooperation and global health: a partnership for human development, Paris, SciencePo Les Presses edition, 482 pages, June 2016,, ; (contribution to the collective work on global health: strategic issue, diplomatic games edited by Dominique Kerouedan and Joseph Brunet-Jailly);
 * BASSILEKIN Achille, What about an African charter on natural resources? (Article published in the magazine Notre Afrik), Brussels, June 2014;
 * BASSILEKIN Achille, EA CAMEROON - EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: European pragmatism meets a Cameroonian strategic ambition, (un Essai d'analyse, Génève 2009;
 * What place for Africa in the New Phase of Globalization? Amand'la, May 2008; Cameroon Tribune of 24 June 2008;
 * UNCTAD XII Responses to the Globalisation for Development, ACP Non Resident Trade Brief, Year 2008, April-May 2008, N°2, Geneva;
 * The links between recent developments at the WTO and the Cameroon-European Union Partnership, Analysis, Yaoundé, July 2007;
 * "The Impact of the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial Conference on the Cameroonian Economy" (Part II), Issues, No. 27, April-June 2006, pages 51 and 52
 * The Draft WTO Framework Agreement of July 2004: A Piecemeal Injection of Africa's Concerns, Analytical Essay, Geneva, July 2004;
 * "Cancun: the impossible consensus", Cameroon-Tribune No. 7953, 29th year, 15 October 2003;
 * "International inter-municipal cooperation in the face of the challenges of new information and communication technologies: what prospects?" Paper presented at the Forum of the Association of Mayors of Cameroon, Mont-Fébé, Yaoundé, May 2000;
 * "The Development of Africa: the necessary 3rd Way", Cahiers du CRED, March 1993;

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