MINISTRY OF
DEFENSE, ARMED FORCES OF LIBERIA WELCOME MoU WITH UNITED NATIONS ON
PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
MONROVIA – The
Ministry of National Defense and the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) welcomes the
signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Government of
Liberia and the United Nations regarding the AFL’s contribution to the UN
Peace-keeping Operations in Mali (MINUSMA). This MoU now solidifies the
contribution of the Armed Forces of Liberia to the UN Peacekeeping Mission in
Mali.
The Ministry of
National Defense and the AFL see the signing of the MOU as a great step for
Liberia and speaks to the level of transformation the Liberian Military has
gone through since its restructuring in 2006.
Commenting on the
signing of the MOU, the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of Liberia, Maj/Gen
Prince C. Johnson III, said the MOU with the United Nations could not have been
possible without the support of the Liberian Government under the leadership of
the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Liberia, President George Manneh
Weah, and former Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who initiated the
restructuring of the Armed Forces of Liberia back in 2006.
Maj/Gen Johnson
also lauded the efforts of others,
including the former Command Officer-in-Charge ( COIC)
of the AFL, the late Maj/Gen. Suraj Alao Abdurrahman, one of Nigeria’s
finest Generals, who was seconded to the AFL in 2007 to lead the young Army; former Liberia’s Permanent Representative to the United
Nations, Ambassador Lewis G. Brown II, the current Liberia Permanent Representative to the
United Nations, Ambassador Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah Sr., and former Defense Minister
Hon. Brownie J. Samukai, and rank and file of the Armed Forces of Liberia and
their families for their efforts and sacrifices in the achievement of this
milestone.
It can be
recalled that the Armed Forces of Liberia’s first post-war peacekeeping mission
to the West African state of Mali started with the deployment of a platoon of
AFL personnel in June 2013. With a
professional and effective military force ready to conduct operations, Liberia
agreed to deploy a contingent to participate in the peacekeeping mission in
Bamako, Mali.
During the
signing ceremony on 23rd July 2019 in New York, the UN Under-Secretary-General
for Operations Support, Mr. Atul Khare, signed on behalf of the UN while
Ambassador Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah Sr., Liberia’s Permanent Representative to
the UN, signed for the government of Liberia. The event was witnessed by
LT/Col. Daniel Holman of the Armed Forces of Liberia along with other officials
of the United Nations Department for Peacekeeping Operations in New York.
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