West Africa: U.S. Envoy Samantha Power On International Response to Ebola Crisis

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Brussels — Remarks by Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, at the German Marshall Fund on the International Response to the Ebola Crisis

Good afternoon. On September 18th, six weeks ago today, the United Nations Security Council held its first-ever emergency meeting on a health crisis. A Liberian man named Jackson Naimah spoke to the Council via video link from Liberia. Jackson works for Médecins Sans Frontières, and is a team leader in one of MSF's Ebola treatment centers in Monrovia. He told the Council that he had lost a niece and a cousin to the virus - both of them nurses infected at work. He said that, as he was speaking to us, sick people were outside the gates of the MSF clinic, begging to be let in and treated. MSF had to turn them away, because they had no more beds. Jackson said, "I feel that the future of my country is hanging in the balance. If the international community does not stand up, we will be wiped out."

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