Full text of Prez. Mahama’s speech at the 69th UN General Assembly meeting

Posted on September 25, 2014September 25, 2014
by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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The President, John Mahama, has expressed shock at the level of isolation the three Ebola-stricken countries have been subjected to.

He said he was astonished when he witnessed the deserted airports in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea during his visit last week.

“In my travel to those three countries…I was shocked to find the airports completely vacant,” he recalled.

President Mahama warned that the Ebola disease “knows no boundaries” therefore, “we cannot afford to let fear keep us away…we must erase the stigma.”

Addressing the 69th UN General Assembly meeting in the United States, President Mahama pointed out that it will be fatal to continue isolating the three affected nations because before the Ebola outbreak, they were struggling to rebuild their social and economic infrastructure after years of civil wars.

The President’s full speech in pdf below;

UN-Speech-2014.Media_

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