US Secretary of State John KerryUnited States Secretary of State John Kerry stated on Thursday, May 22, that the United States is the only one country that helps Nigeria to locate the abducted Chibok schoolgirls while Britain, France and Israel help on the ground.
The United States became the biggest foreign participant in fight against Boko Haram sect as about 80 military personnel were sent to neighboring Chad for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
While Washington, D.C., has deployed surveillance drones, spy planes and about 30 civilian and military specialists to support Nigeria‘s security forces.
During a dinner at the State Department on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the US diplomatic corps, John Kerry said: "Boko Haram, Nigeria, only the United States is there offering the assistance to help find those young women. Other countries, not only aren’t they invited, but they did not even offer."
However, Britain, France, Israel have sent their own experts as well as China who proposed to help as 10 Chinese citizens were likely abducted by Boko Haram in a region bordering Cameroon.
Earlier, the United Nations imposed sanctions on Boko Haram, blacklisting it as an Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist organization.
In his speech, Kerry also lashed out at France, whose Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has expressed regret that the United States did not attack Syria a year ago amid spiraling violence in the conflict there.
"People are angry because we did not strike Syria at one instance but guess what: Today, 92 percent of all the chemical weapons in Syria are out and being destroyed and the other eight percent will get out,” a visibly angry Kerry said, without mentioning France specifically. That never would have occurred otherwise," he said.
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