The President of the Republic of Liberia, His Excellency Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr., has by proclamation declared Saturday, September 21, 2024 as Worldwide Day of Peace to be noticed all through the Republic as a Working Vacation. In keeping with a Overseas Ministry launch, this 12 months’s commemoration shall be held below the theme: ” Cultivating the Tradition of Peace”, which highlights the accountability to supply the chance for prosperity, peace and partnership via the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Improvement.
The observance of the day will even embody a name for international ceasefire in conditions of battle and violence so as to improve the tradition of peace and stability. The proclamation urges all residents, authorities ministries, autonomous companies, civil society organizations and personal companies, faculties and faculties, locations of worship, people inside the borders to hitch the New African Analysis and Improvement Company (NARDA) to plan and implement acceptable packages befitting the event.
The proclamation is in consonance with the 57th session of the Basic Meeting of the United Nations unanimously adopted Decision 55/282, declaring the twenty first day of September of every 12 months because the” Worldwide Day of peace” and increasing the observance of the day to incorporate a name for international ceasefire in conditions of battle, and nonviolence all through the world in the course of the day. It additional states that Liberia which is a signatory to the Constitution establishing the United Nations on October 24, 1945, with the mandate to avoid wasting future generations from the scourge of battle and selling peace, has benefited from the peace preserving mission of the World physique which has the required situations for sustainable growth and financial prosperity.
“The United Nations Basic Meeting in 1981 proclaimed Worldwide Day of Peace to be dedicated to commemorating and strengthening the concepts of Peace each inside and amongst all nations and folks in addition to to supply international shared date for all humanity to decide to peace above all variations, and to contribute to constructing a tradition of peace,” the proclamation additional said.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Republic of Liberia: Govt Mansion.