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Can Liberia’s ‘Irreversible Progress’ Promise be Guaranteed?

Can Liberia’s ‘Irreversible Progress’ Promise be Guaranteed?

From All Africa

Achieving an average annual growth or over 7 per cent and improving governance and accountability has put Liberia on the path to “irreversible progress”, noted President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as she addressed the 68th session of the General Assembly.

Liberia has returned to the comity of nations as a “respectable and responsible partner” over the last 10 years, and while the country has come a long way “we have a long way to go,” added President Johnson-Sirleaf in her address to the Assembly’s General Debate which began at UN Headquarters today and runs through 1 October.

Thanking the Organization for extending the UN peacekeeping operation in Liberia through September 2014, the President reiterated her country’s commitment to building a competent security sector, able to tackle violent crimes, sexual and gender-based violence.

The UN has maintained a peacekeeping force in Liberia since 2003 to bolster a ceasefire agreement ending a decade of war that killed nearly 150,000 people, mostly civilians. The mandate of the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) includes helping to restore the rule of law and democratic processes, as well as facilitating humanitarian assistance.

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