HIS EXCELLENCY MR. ANTÓNIO GUTERRES, Secretary General of the United Nations
EXCELLENCIES, HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT;
AMBASSADORS; HEADS OF DELEGATIONS; ESTEEMED DELEGATES;
DISTINGUISHED LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
I am pleased and honored to address this Seventy-sixth (76th) Session of the United Nations General Assembly on behalf of the Government and People of Liberia.
Liberia’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Cecilia Forgbe Wreh-McGill, on Monday, September 20, 2021, on behalf of His Excellency Dr. George Manneh Weah, President of the Republic of Liberia, and His Excellency Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr., Minister of Foreign Affairs, joined world leaders, representatives of the United Nations Member States and the United Nations System at a special ceremony commemorating the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in the United States.
The Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Ms. Henrietta Fore, has hailed Liberia as a model for negotiating the acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccines through the COVID-19 Global Access (COVAX) facility.
The COVAX facility is a global initiative for the procurement and supply of COVID-19 vaccines, with the goal of ensuring that every country, even the poorest, has equitable access to the vaccines.