UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Ambassador of the United States to the United Nations Samantha Power at the meeting of the security Council 'today.
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Ebola virus devastation in three countries in West Africa today forced the United Nations Security Council to convene its first never emergency meeting to discuss a public health crisis. It was unanimously adopted a resolution that declared the spread of the virus a "threat to international peace and security" and called on the world to send more workers and health care supplies in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, and not to isolate the country.
Several speakers stressed that the epidemic is particularly tragic because the three countries have made considerable progress in their development in recent years.
US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, who chaired today's meeting, noted that the resolution had 130 co-sponsors, more than any precedent in the history of the Security Council .
The following are excerpts from speeches by Power and others
Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary General :.
"the seriousness and scale of the situation now requires a level of international action unprecedented for health emergencies. ... Leaders of the affected countries requested the Organization of UN to coordinate the global response. We are committed to doing what is necessary to the required speed and scale ...
this unprecedented situation requires unprecedented measures to save lives and preserve peace and security. therefore, I decided to establish a United Nations health mission combining strategic perspective of the World health Organization with a very strong logistics and operational capacity. This international mission, to be known as the United Nations Mission for Ebola or UNMEER emergencies, will have five priorities :. stopping the epidemic, treatment of infected people, providing essential services, preserving stability, and prevent further epidemics "
David Nabarro, main coordinator of the United Nations system for Ebola virus disease:
" There is a growing epidemic at an exponential rate. ... The doubling rate is about every 3 weeks. ... The answer increases more as a line speed, so if you had a chart, it would look like a straight line. What this means is the epidemic accelerates away from the control effort. ... The challenge is to ensure that all these different offers [for support] are effectively coordinated with a powerful platform that allows everyone to work in the safe area and not get themselves infected virus. ... What is absolutely vital, Madam President, is a very big tent, because it requires the world to come late on countries and people behind them to get a quick result. "
Margaret Chan, director -general of the World Health Organization:
"This deadly Ebola virus and feared before us in a home as fast moving described by Dr. Nabarro continues to deliver one surprise after another. Now we have to catch the most urgent and pragmatic as possible. ...
This is probably the biggest challenge in peacetime the United Nations and its agencies have had to face. None of us experienced in containing outbreaks ever seen in our lives emergency on this scale with this degree of suffering and the magnitude of the consequences cascade . ... In some regions, hunger has become an even greater concern than the virus. ... Everything is now unprecedented. Everything now is faster than ever. the need is great and we know it "
Niamah Jackson, the assistant of a doctor in an Ebola treatment center in Monrovia run by Doctors Without Borders
". One day this week, I sat outside to eat my lunch processing center. I met a boy who broke through the gates. His father had died of Ebola it a week ago. I saw the blood in his mouth. We had no space. We could not take it in. ... When he turned away, he entered the city, and I thought, this guy is going to take a taxi and he will go home and infect their families. ...
Please send your helicopter, your center, your bed, your staff and experts. But we must also know the basics. There are still houses in Monrovia that lack of soap, water, and buckets. Even these simple things can help stop the spread of the virus.
The future of my country is in the balance. ... We do not have the capacity to respond to the crisis on our own. If the international community does not stand up, we will be destroyed. We need your help. We need it now "
Samantha Power, US Ambassador to the United Nations:
". Looking away will not remove it. One of the main reasons for this epidemic is dramatically propagated is that so far we have not come together enough to face it. ... Isolation is effective and necessary to treat people who may have been exposed to Ebola, it is quite against-productive when applied to whole countries. It deprives them of the same resources they need to bring the virus under control. So when the governments of the region say more than 70 investigators from the disease if they travel to infected areas to volunteer, they will not be allowed to return to their own country, they not only put the country currently affected to a greater risk, but also their own country.
Today, instead of isolating the affected countries that we call for them floods, flooding with the resources that are desperately needed to turn the tide in this struggle. ... If today's resolution is not followed by action on one year scale and scope proportional to the virus, this resolution will be referred to from now on as proof that we have raised the hope that we do not deliver sure. "
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