Liberia To Become A Non-Permanent UN Security Council Member
Monrovia, Liberia: Africa’s Oldest Independent Republic, Liberia, is set to make another historic moment this time on the world stage in the quest to foster global peace and security.
Delivering his Sixth State of the Nation Address on Monday 30th January 2023, President George Weah says Liberia’s Candidature for a Seat on the United Nations Security Council as a Non-Permanent Member for the 2026 – 2027 period has been endorsed, during the 40th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union, which was held from February 3rd -7th, 2022 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
” I am now pleased to announce that the election for Liberia to sit on the Security Council as a Non-Permanent Member for the 2026 – 2027 period will be held in New York in 2025. Needless to say, this will be a very proud moment for our Nation and represents the full acceptance of Liberia among the comity of nations, as a responsible country capable of making significant contributions to global peace and security by sitting on the United Nations Security Council, the highest and most important forum for world peace”
He prided, “Imagine the significance of the journey we have traveled over the past two decades, from being a war-torn country, ravished and destroyed by a civil war that lasted for fifteen years, which required the deployment of the largest United Nations Peacekeeping Force at that time, UNMIL, to bring peace to our troubled land; and now have a seat on the Security Council of the very United Nations that had been sent to save us from ourselves. We have a lot to be thankful for as a People”.
The United Nations Security Council which consists of five permanent members namely, China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America collectively known as the P5, are the major decision-makers within the United Nations, and when it comes to hands-on or hard-core decision-making, any one of them can veto a resolution. The council’s ten elected members, who usually serve a two-year nonconsecutive term, are not afforded veto power. So when Liberia forms part of this high decision-making body, as a non-permanent member, it would be a glorious day to celebrate.
Liberia which is the only Black state in Africa that was never subjected to colonial rule; and was established, on land acquired for freed U.S. slaves by the American Colonization Society, which founded a colony at Cape Mesurado in 1821 is clearly on its way to greatness.
And now in retrospect, Liberia is one of the countries in the world whose name, will forever be penciled in on the sands of time because of Diplomat and Jurist, Angie Elizabeth Brooks, who was the only African female President, of the United Nations General Assembly and was also, the second woman from any nation, to head that magnificent and prestigious U.N. body.
Emmanuel Logan ( E-Lo) Writes.
