Liberia Has 'Turned the Corner' Towards Lasting Peace, Its President Declares At UN

26 September 2012

Ten years after the end of Liberia's brutal civil war, the country has made tremendous progress on the path to lasting peace and stability, its President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, told the United Nations General Assembly today, while adding that serious challenges remain.

"As Liberia moves toward its tenth year of sustained peace, we can state with conviction that our country has turned the corner," President Johnson-Sirleaf said in her address to the Assembly's high-level General Debate, which began at UN Headquarters in New York on Tuesday.

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