UN General Assembly
1990

Liberia, Africa’s oldest republic, and a founding member of the United Nations, is today experiencing a brutal and devastating civil war. Liberia, a country which has enjoyed peace and stability for most of its nationhood, is today being torn asunder. Liberia, a country of almost 3 million people, has been virtually destroyed, its population decimated and hundreds of thousands forced to become refugees abroad and displaced within their own homeland. I take this podium on behalf of these innocent victims of the civil war to call on the international community to bring an end to that war, a war which continues to inflict incalculable loss of human life and property. On behalf of all Liberians I am duty-bound to represent here today, I call upon the Organisation to end this tragedy. As Members, are aware, this crisis erupted on 24 December 1989 and has continued unabated until today, with no end in sight.