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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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 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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remain on full alert throughout the country to ensure a secured environment.
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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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Today is a day of hope, a day of optimism.
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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.