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Endorse concept of United
States of Africa now – Liberia
Accra, July 3, GNA – Liberia on Tuesday urged African
leaders meeting in Accra to endorse “without further study”
the concept of the United States of Africa.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf addressing her
colleagues at the African Union Summit said they should also
“instruct, in no uncertain terms, all regional economic
commissions and community institutions to formulate and
adopt the roadmap and the timetable for the achievement of
this goal using or revising these details in the report of
the Obasanjo Committee and the proposed integrative
structures before us”.
She recalled that Liberia belonged to the Monrovia/Sanquelli
Group in the early 1960s that preached a gradual approach in
the establishment of an African government as opposed to the
Casablanca Group that wanted a radical approach and asked
whether gradualism had served her country or Africa.
“This is why Liberia endorses, in principle, the spirit of
African unity as expressed in the proposed establishment of
the United States of Africa.”
Mrs Johnson-Sirleaf said Liberia was trying to regain her
lost progress through years of conflict by becoming an
active member in promoting integration of the continent
through regional and sub-regional bodies such as the
expanded Mano River Union and ECOWAS.
She said her country was also playing an active role in
regional integration mechanisms such as the West African Gas
Pipeline, the West African Power Pool and the fully
operational ECOWAS passport.
Mrs Johnson-Sirleaf said Liberia was also working towards
admission and participation in the process that would lead
to a common West African currency.
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