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Release Outcome of Foreign Service Officers’ Posting Probe … LiDTT Urges GoL

by News Manager

By: Elbie Sebleh
MONROVIA: The Liberia Diplomatic Think Tank (LiDTT) has expressed serious concerns over the prolonged delay by the government of Liberia to fully disclose and implement the outcomes of its investigation on the mass posting of Foreign Service Officers by the erstwhile administration of former President George Weah.

The ex-government’s action was thought by the current Liberian Administration to be in total violation of the Foreign Service Manual Part-I Section 1.5.

The LiDTT believes that a full disclosure and implementation of the outcome of the investigation will put to rest claims of tainted image created by the Weah-led administration regarding the Foreign Service.

The release of the probe outcome would, more importantly, enhance the credibility of the Foreign Service reform process by the government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

In an interview with journalists, the Public Relations Officer, Michael Tarpeh Young, said the Think Tank also acknowledges the efforts made thus far, by the Liberian Government, to strengthen bilateral and multilateral relations with development partners around the world through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, under the stewardship of Madam Sara Beysolow Nyanti.

In view of reforming the Liberia Foreign Service, the institution notes that sending non-Foreign Service graduates to Foreign Mission would impede the integrity of Liberia Foreign Mission and expose the inefficiency of Foreign Service Officers to development partners around the world as they would not be knowledgeable of the functions and duties of diplomats.

Therefore, LiDTT recommends that recruitment of Foreign Service Officers should squarely focus on professional Liberians who have graduated from the Foreign Service Institute, trained and knowledgeable of the functions and responsibilities of the Foreign Service, enshrined in Part-I Section 1.5 of the Foreign Service Manual on Procedure for Appointment to the Foreign Service (Eligibility and Application).

LiDTT also recommends that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs considers the recall of Foreign Service Officers who have overstayed at various missions, as enshrined in Part 1, Section 10.3 of the Foreign Service Manual on Retirement and Pension and to effectuate the reassigning or rotating Foreign Service Officers as enshrined in Part-I Section 10.9 of the Foreign Service manual on Consultation/Recall of Foreign Service Recall.

Concluding, he said, “In the next few days, the LiDTT will provide an outcome of the analysis conducted on the progress and challenges of Liberia’s Foreign policy under H.E. Amb. Joseph Nyumah Boakai’s administration through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The analysis will reveal series of reforms needed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Foreign Service. The LiDTT is committed to the promotion of Liberia Foreign Policy and the promotion of Emergent Diplomats.”

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