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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remain on full alert throughout the country to ensure a secured environment.
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Economic hope I think is crucial. There is a window of opportunity here, but that would not last forever.
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The observer mission has termed the elections free and fair. Party representatives were present in, I believe, just about every polling station and they signed off on the records.
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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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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 hope that the current calm and stability will gradually install itself throughout the country.
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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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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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Today is a day of hope, a day of optimism.
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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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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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We have to give the new government, initially, the benefit of the doubt. Help them get moving quickly so people see a difference. If a few years from now they sense that nothing has changed . . . there could be trouble again.