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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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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remain on full alert throughout the country to ensure a secured environment.
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We are doing and will continue to do cordon and search operations based on intelligence tip-offs where we go and raid premises to recover any hidden caches,
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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.
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Today is a day of hope, a day of optimism.
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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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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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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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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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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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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,