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Liberian President meets outgoing UNMEER Chief, bidding him farewell

Xinhua, April 30, 2015 Adjust font size:

Liberian President Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf has met with a delegation of United Nations Mission on Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER).

The delegation included the outgoing head of UNMEER, Mr. Ismail Cheikh Ahmed, the newly appointed acting head, Peter Graaff and SRSG Karen Landgren.

Mr. Ahmed informed President Sirleaf that he has been appointed by the UN Secretary General as his Envoy to Yemen and also appointed Mr. Peter Graaff who has been involved with managing the Ebola crisis as the new acting head of UNMEER.

"I have come to show appreciation and to say thanks for the partnership that has brought us this far. I trust that Mr. Graaff who has been with us all this time will properly step in my shoes even as we approach the end date of the crisis," Mr. Ahmed said.

He spoke after his delegation met the Liberian leader in Monrovia Wednesday, an Executive Mansion press released emailed to reporters last night said.

Mr. Ahmed observed that Liberia has demonstrated its capacity to manage the Ebola situation and other infectious outbreaks that may occur by the way it handled the single case that emerged as the first countdown was on.

President Sirleaf thanked Mr. Ahmed for servicing Liberia so well and for his new preferment and welcomed Mr. Graaff to his new assignment, expressing her confidence in the commitment and competence of both men to serve when called upon.

"Your new assignment is a very important one that requires your demonstrated skills and experience," she concluded. Endi