Jean-Baptiste Beleoken

Who is Jean-Baptiste Beleoken?

Jean-Baptiste Beleoken is a Cameroonian politician who served in the government of Cameroon as Minister of State Property and Land Tenure from 2009 to 2011. During the 1970s, he served successively as Cameroon's Ambassador to the Soviet Union, as Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, and as Ambassador to West Germany; subsequently he was Director of State Protocol from 1980 to 1989. After a long absence from state affairs, Beleoken returned to the political scene as Director of the Civil Cabinet of the Presidency from 2005 to 2009; he was then appointed to the government as Minister of State Property and Land Tenure in June 2009, remaining in the latter post until December 2011.