Credit: Gary Raynaldo / Ambassador Anatolio Ndong Mba, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea to the United Nations (Center)  with staff members during press conference at UN world headquarters in New York Aug. 15, 2019. 

By Gary Raynaldo    DIPLOMATIC TIMES

UNITED NATIONS  –  NEW YORK –   “Equatorial Guinea united as a single man supporting his Head of State, S.E. (President) Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, will continue fighting  to maintain peace, social balance, national cohesion,…proving that  the children of this nation cannot position and move as pieces on the global chess board where the criminal George Soros is playing.”  Ambassador Anatolio Ndong Mba, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea to the United Nations, delivered the provocative statement on behalf of his government at a press conference Thursday at UN world headquarters on New York.  Ambassador  Ndong Mba spoke to reporters to relay his country’s anger at a recent article published by Amnesty International accusing the west coast  of African nation of gross human rights violations and repression:

Equatorial Guinea: 40 years of repression and rule of fear highlights human rights crisis

“Equatorial Guineans who turn 40 this year were born, and grew up, in a country where human rights have been constantly and systematically violated. For too long, people have lived in a climate of fear because of impunity over human rights violations and abuses including the jailing of human rights defenders, activists and political opponents on trumped up charges,” said Marta Colomer, Amnesty International’s West Africa Senior Campaigner.  “Authorities in Equatorial Guinea must halt decades of human rights violations and abuses including torture, arbitrary detentions and unlawful killings, Amnesty International said today, 40 years after President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo seized power.”

Credit: Wikipedia Commons:   His Excellency Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea,  in the Blue Room during a U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit dinner at the White House, Aug. 5, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Amanda Lucidon)

Equatorial Guinea’s President Obiang Nguema celebrated 40 years in power this month, highlighting his status as Africa’s longest-serving head of state.

Credit: Wikipedia Commons /   George Soros is an Hungarian-American  investor and philanthropist. As of February 2018, he had a net worth of $8 billion,  having donated more than $32 billion to his philanthropic agency, Open Society Foundations.

The Republic of Equatorial Guinea suggests that US  Billionaire  George Soros may have had some influence in the publishing of the hicritical Amnesty International article accusing the government of humans rights violations, including torturing prisoners by hanging them head down by the feet.

Credit: Gary Raynaldo  /  Ambassador Anatolio Ndong Mba, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea to the United Nations (right) at press conference Aug. 15, 2019 UN world headquarters. 

“The Government of Equatorial Guinea disclaim the article published by Amnesty International dated 2 August of this year. It’s known that George Soros is a billionaire, financial speculator, and a criminal with obvious geostrategic and imperialist interests who has been dedicating his life to support imperialistic movements and to expand capitalism by watering countless countries over many decades. We inform national and international public not to be fooled or confused if philanthropic actions appear funded by this man and his foundation.”

-Ambassador  Ndong Mba read from a Communique of the Government of Equatorial Guinea

DIPLOMATIC TIMES Video /  Ambassador Anatolio Ndong Mba, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea to the United Nations (right)  speaks at press conference Aug. 15, 2019 UN world headquarters. 

 Luxury cars seized from Equatorial Guinea leader’s son raise £2.8 million

Credit: UK Telegraph:  / A Maserati MC12, Rolls Royce Phantom Coupe and an Aston Martin V8 belonging to Teodorin Obiang, the Equatorial Guinea president’s son Photo: SWNS

Oil-rich Equatorial Guinea’s image  has been tarnished by allegations of corruption involving the nation’s president and his son Teodorin Obiang.

Equatorial Guinea: President’s Son Convicted of Laundering Millions

Teodorin Nguema, Equatorial Guinea’s vice president and son of President Teodoro Obiang. © Getty Images

A Parisian court on October 27, 2017, convicted the president of Equatorial Guinea’s eldest son in absentia of embezzling tens of millions of euro from his government and laundering the proceeds in France.

Ambassador Anatolio Ndong Mba stated that Equatorial Guinea has, over the years, achieved  the reconstruction of the country by forging “a new Equatorial Guinea through a restoration of its morality and a renewed trust, which would allow the projection of a the country’s social-economic development.”  The ambassador added that numerous modern works in all districts of the national territory have radically changed the county image. “The current widespread availability of electricity supply and drinking water has changed the daily life of the homes of the Equatorial Guineans.”   The Ambassador stated that all “these achievements have been due to the establishment of a climate of peace, respect for human rights. 

George Soros ‘plotted to oust Equatorial Guinea’s leader’:  BBC

“The list of Soros destructive interventions in  different countries is endless. All this so that it is known who George Soros is, how he works and what he works for, always with the aim of expanding his negative influences at the cost of financing destabilization movements in different countries of   the world.  If terrorism and jihadism have to be financed, he  finances it. For him the attacks promoted by terrorists and jihadists, no matter how heinous, they don’t matter. The important thing is that he gets his destruction targets and accumulate more wealth. “

-Ambassador Anatolio Ndong Mba read from a Communique of the Government of Equatorial Guinea

During question and answer session after the communique was delivered, ambassador Ndong Mba noted that 10 years after his country’s independence, there was no mention of Equatorial Guinea in the international press despite there being  a great deal of suffering due to poverty. “Then after 1979 when the president…  when the aim was to eradicate extreme poverty, then there was claims that the country had to be helped after so many years suffering.  It was then in the 1990’s when oil was discovered it was then that Equatorial Guinea was really  able to fuel its development. And since then,  Equatorial Guinea has been in international press. And  that is when Amnesty International  has been writing articles about Equatorial Guinea, but not  prior to that.”

Regarding the graft and corruption allegations and cases against the President’s son:  “Is it really credible to say that the Vice President  is the only one who is facing  these kinds of accusations. Why is it just countries (African) such as ours that are receiving these kinds  of criticisms, and these complaints. We know there are many other cases but they are simply not talked about. And we’re talking very often about leaders of government,  but they’re simply never reported on.  It’s only African countries to whom one wants to point the finger.  Before he became Vice President,  he was involved in economic activities, in fisheries,  forestry. And he was quite free to develop his economic activities then as many other people do in different countries.  And of course we are seeing that he is now being criticized for doing things, quite frankly, many other people around the world can be accused of. I think perhaps what if there is corruption  in Equatorial Guinea, corruption exists throughout the world. Even in the  most developed countries, there is corruption.” 

Credit: BBC.com / Equatorial Guinea is a small country on the west coast of Africa which struck oil in 1995 and which is now being cited as a textbook case of the resource curse – or the paradox of plenty.