United Nations — Mr. Lewis Brown, Liberia's Permanent Representative at the UN has said Liberia welcomes and supports the Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) Agenda not only as a tool to ensure that children are protected and perpetrators held accountable but also as a moral imperative. "As if we needed one, that we must act with singularity of purpose and unwavering determination, including here in this chamber, to decidedly end the ongoing conflicts. It is all too obvious, where conflict exists; poor children and their families will remain at high risks of having their lives, and our future, ruined perhaps forever. The same is also true that we must act with equal commitment and decisiveness to prevent conflict and sustain peace."
The diplomat added: "Where the institutions of the State have clearly collapsed under the weight of the ongoing armed conflict, perhaps it is time to extend the duty of protection, and actually ending the ongoing conflicts to the regions of the conflict as well as other external actors who are vesting interests in the continuation of the conflicts. It is time we truly held each other duly accountable for ending conflicts, as well as preventing them."
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