Liberian Delegation Off to US

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 23:01 admin

-Team Headed by Amara Konneh to Make Case for More Aid at World Bank Annual Meeting

Liberia’s  Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Mr. Amara M. Konneh headed a small Liberian delegation to Washington, DC on Monday, 6^th October, to participate in the upcoming annual meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The Liberian delegation is tasked with the responsibility to make serious case for the receding Liberian economy and ensure that the international support is landed to fight the Ebola virus and restore the post conflict economy which enjoyed an 8 percent annual growth prior to the Ebola outbreak.
The meeting comes at a time when Liberia is experiencing the worst ever outbreak of the deadly “Ebola Virus Disease” (EVD), which has claimed many lives, posing further risk of exposure to the larger population and a severe impact on the economy.
While in the US, Minister Konneh, who is being joined by the Executive Governor of the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL), Dr. Joseph Mills Jones, is expected to hold series of multilateral and bilateral discussions aimed at rallying support for the government’s “National Ebola Response Strategy,” including the overall efforts to contain and defeat the disease and resource mobilization to address the potential economic impact of the Ebola virus on the Liberian economy.
The Liberian delegation is also expected to play a key role in a special “Ebola Roundtable” involving UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki Moon, the World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, IMF Managing Director, Christine Lagarde, and a host of development partners.