In 1994, John N. Foncha and Salomon T. Muna, both former Prime Ministers of the Southern Cameroons, returned to the United Nations in New York and demanded separate independence for the Southern Cameroons. The mission to the UN preceded the All Anglophone Conference (AAC I) which took place in Buea bringing together all Southern Cameroons citizens who unanimously called for the restoration of the statehood of the Southern Cameroons. A second All Anglophone Conference (AAC II) was held in Bamenda at which the decisions of AAC I were reiterated and a 'reasonable time' given to French Cameroun to accept a return to the two state federation failing which the people of the Southern Cameroons would be left with no other option than to revive its statehood and revive its independence. The implementation of AAC-I & AAC-II were however stalled by the brutal arrests and incarceration of the leaders of the AAC with several others escaping into exile.