Liberia: Annual Message delivered to the National Legislature delivered by the President of the Republic
Published: 27/Jan/2020
Source: Liberia Presidency
ANNUAL MESSAGE TO THE THIRD SESSION OF THE FIFTY-FOURTH NATIONAL LEGISLATURE OF THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA DELIVERED BY HIS EXCELLENCY DR. GEORGE MANNEH WEAH PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA
THE CAPITOL BUILDING
CAPITOL HILL
MONROVIA, LIBERIA
27 JANUARY 2020
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Additionally, with your collaboration, we participated in a Presidential & Legislative Retreat in August last year, where we exchanged views and proffered solutions to address some of our pending constitutional issues. This resulted in a Resolution signed on three propositions to amend various Articles of the 1986 Constitution of the Republic of Liberia.
These three Propositions for constitutional amendment will be voted on in a Constitutional Referendum to be held later this year.
Proposition One on dual citizenship underscores the message that our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren will always be Liberians.
In this regard, we welcome the All Liberian Conference on Dual Citizenship to be held in Monrovia later this year, and look forward to our participation along with civil society, in the public awareness campaign that will lead to the passage of Proposition One, thereby enshrining into our organic law, the principle that once a Liberian, always a Liberian.
In the same vein, let me take this time to give a special salute to the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Honorable Supreme Court of Liberia for the recent landmark ruling that speaks to this truth: that once a Liberian, always a Liberian.
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