Liberia Elected As Member of UN Economic and Social Council After Nearly Thirty - 30 Years

New York — The Republic of Liberia was on Wednesday, June 17, 2020, overwhelmingly elected as a Member of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to serve a three-year term; beginning January 1, 2021, and ending on December 31, 2023.

Liberia's overwhelming election to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) followed its endorsement by the African Group of fifty-four Ambassadors and Permanent Representatives to the United Nations in December 2019, when Liberia's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, His Excellency Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr. served as Chair of the African Group for the month of December 2019; and comes thirty (30) years after Liberia last served on the council.

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