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Monrovia, Liberia – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr., has by proclamation declared Saturday, September 21, 2024 as International Day of Peace to be observed throughout the Republic as a Working Holiday. A Foreign Ministry release states that the commemoration this year will be under the theme “Cultivating the Culture of Peace,” stressing the obligation to offer the chance for prosperity, peace, and cooperation via the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
To improve the culture of peace and stability, the celebration of the day will also call for a worldwide ceasefire in cases of conflict and violence. The proclamation urges all citizens, government ministries, autonomous agencies, civil society organizations and private businesses, schools and colleges, places of worship, individuals within the borders to join the New African Research and Development Agency (NARDA) to plan and implement appropriate programs befitting the occasion.
The proclamation is in line with the 57th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations unanimously adopted Resolution 55/282, declaring the 21st day of September of each year as the “International Day of peace” and so extending the observance of the day to include a call for global ceasefire in circumstances of conflict, and nonviolence all around for the duration of the day.
It also notes that Liberia, a signatory to the Charter establishing the United Nations on October 24, 1945, with the mandate to save future generations from the plague of war and so promote peace, has benefited from the peacekeeping mission of the World body which has the required conditions for sustainable development and economic prosperity.
“The United Nations General Assembly in 1981 proclaimed International Day of Peace to be devoted to commemorating and strengthening the ideas of Peace both inside and among all nations and people and to provide global shared date for all mankind to commit to peace above all differences, and to help to build a culture of peace,” the proclamation said.
