Amb. Brown Presents Credentials to UN Secretary General Gueterres
Liberia Commends African Union for Formal Endorsement of UNSC Candidature
The Government of the Republic of Liberia has commended the African Union for formally endorsing Liberia’s candidature for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the term 2026- 2027.
The decision to formally endorse Liberia’s candidature was adopted on July 14, 2023, in Nairobi, Kenya, at the 43rd Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union, reaffirming the earlier endorsement by the AU Ministerial Committee on Candidatures in 2022.
Liberian Human Rights Lawyer Pela Boker Wilson elected to UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Thursday, June 22, 2023, elected Liberian Human Rights Lawyer, Cllr. Pela Boker Wilson to serve as one of the Independent Experts on the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) for a four-year term beginning January 2024.