Alan Doss
Alan Doss
Alan Claude Doss, who is British, spent his entire professional life in the service of the United Nations working on peacekeeping, development and humanitarian assignments in Africa, Asia and Europe as well as at United Nations Headquarters in New York...
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The United States has made a start here, training the army, but this goes beyond one partner and I hope others will come in,
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Poverty is pervasive, the productive base of the economy has been destroyed. None of that can be fixed with the best will in the world in a few months,
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Considerable assistance from donors, including debt relief, will be needed in the early years. That is inevitable because there are things that government needs to do: infrastructure has to be built, and so on.
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We hope that the current calm and stability will gradually install itself throughout the country.
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We hope that as we process the votes, you will all wait for the outcome of this election with a spirit of unity, and that we all guard the peace we have enjoyed throughout this process.
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We haven't had the long queues we had before, but that may be in part because the procedure was simpler ... just two candidates.
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Today is a day of hope, a day of optimism.
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Right now, Liberia is a country on life support. But this is the best opportunity it has had for decades.
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Right now, Liberia is a country on life support,
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When you demobilize tens of thousands of young men, if they don't have any hope then you create all the ingredients for a future explosion if you're not careful,
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Liberia has been the epicenter of progressive waves of instability that have swept through this region over the past 25 years,
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While we do not know which candidates will be chosen as the newly elected leaders of a democratically elected government of Liberia, we do know that today Liberians voted, cast their ballots for peace and for a new Liberia,
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while we do not know this evening which of the two candidates will be chosen as the newly elected leader of Liberia, we do know that today, Liberian voters haven taken a major step towards rebuilding their nation.
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The next two years will be critical for Liberia.