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  1. “I congratulate the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, and commit our full support to the work she does. I also wish to thank UNICEF and all those who have been helpful in our programme to rehabilitate our children. I thank the Secretary-General for his recent visit to Liberia, and I assure the Council of our abiding faith in the Organization and our commitment to its goals and objectives.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  2. “Continuous support from the Council and from all of our friends in the international community would help greatly in the process. Liberia remains grateful to the Security Council for its role in helping to resolve the Liberian crisis. The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) has been and continues to be our saving grace. We pray as the Council considers its redeployment that the process will be gradual, thus enabling us to restructure and train our own security apparatus to ensure that the peace we have won, with the Council's help, is sustained. The lifting of sanctions on Liberia forest products is an important step in assisting our Government to meet the challenges we face to improve the lives of our children. In that context, we ask for continued support to meet the conditionalities for the lifting of sanctions on our diamonds.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  3. “While we certainly are doing and will continue to do all we can within our means to curtail that problem, we appeal for United Nations intervention not just in condemning the practice but to bring to justice all persons who flagrantly violate the rights of children by maliciously and illegally recruiting them to kill or be killed and thus destroy and violate the rights of innocent people. The Liberian Government is aware that although we have been assisted in disarming and demobilizing our combatant children, the transitional safety net provided to them is inadequate. They must be returned to their families and schools and be assisted in developing the requisite skills to be fully rehabilitated and to participate in civil life, gainfully.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  4. “We abhor the violation of the security and rights of our children and vouch to exert every effort in their rehabilitation and support of their security. Having ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Government is now proposing to the national legislature the ratification of the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict and the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. As we address the issues affecting children in Liberia, we continue to be disturbed by conflicts in other parts of our subregion. The reported recruitment of Liberian children to cross the border and fight as mercenaries in other countries is most disquieting.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  5. “It is well established that far too many of them were victims of brutal killing, rape, sexual assault, abduction, torture, forced labour, or forced recruitment as fighters in combat. Twenty-one thousand of them are known to have been child soldiers, participating in murder, mayhem, rape and the destruction of property. Our war has ended, but our country is now involved in the humongous tasks of reconstruction, rehabilitation, reconciliation and renewal. In meeting those challenges, our children are foremost in our minds, our plans and our actions. The Government's education programme, one of the most challenging, is aimed at increasing the percentage of children in school, especially girls; improving the quality and practicality of the skills they acquire; and enhancing the level of literacy and numeracy in the country.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  6. “In pursuing a resolution to the crisis, we believe efforts must be made to remove or eliminate threats to sovereign States in the region and that the reduction of hostilities and the pursuance of peace should be within the context of the United Nations and this Council. It is commendable that, in spite of the crises in the Middle East and other burning issues around the world, the Council has found it expedient to schedule a debate on children in armed conflicts. That subject is important to Liberia and to our entire region. Children constitute almost one half of our entire population and they unjustly suffered during the continuous war we experienced in our country.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  7. “I bring you greetings, Sir, from our President, Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who was originally invited to be here. Unfortunately, pressing matters of state prevented her from coming, and she has asked me to sit in her stead. As you know, the day after tomorrow we will be celebrating the 159th anniversary of our independence, and our people require the President to be there. This Council is at the apex of the international community's search for peace and security. Today, as we endeavour to seek peace in one corner of our world, rupture is occurring in another. President Sirleaf and the Liberian people are disturbed by the events in the Middle East and wish to register support for the exercise of restraint on both sides of the divide.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source