The visiting United States Permanent Representative at the United Nations, Ambassador Samantha Power, has assured Liberia of her country's full involvement in helping Liberia fight out the Ebola virus.

Ambassador Power, speaking at a joint press conference in the Foyer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tuesday, October 28  revealed that US President Obama sent her to the affected region in order to show that the US government is the fight together with the affected countries, particularly Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

"President Obama asked me to come to the region as a member of his cabinet and the ambassador to the United Nations in order to show solidarity with the people of the region so that you know that you are not alone in the fight of this terrible epidemic", Ambassador Power told journalists during the press conference.

The US Ambassador who arrived in the country Tuesday as part of her tour of the affected countries counted the US' efforts and hailed the US military forces on the ground, US experts from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and other US efforts that are mobilizing along with the UN and the international community on behalf of  President Johnson Sirleaf's national plan which she described as a good plan to fight the virus.

She continued, "We are beginning to see results. We are seeing safe burials occurred." She also detailed other progress such as the reduced time in getting laboratory samples and results due to the provision of US mobile labs which have now seen a previous five-day process massively cut to less than five hours.

"My main message to the Liberian people, on behalf of President Obama, is that we will beat this. Liberia has come through many difficult chapters in its history and we know the path that Liberia was on before Ebola came into this country recently. And that is the path towards more prosperity, more employment for young people..... and the deepening of your democracy overtime. And that is the path, I will commit to you on behalf of the President and on behalf of the American people, that we will work together to ensure that we will get back on and we will see to beat this epidemic together in a Liberia that is stronger", she added.

Earlier, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, on behalf of the Liberian Government and people welcomed and thanked the US Envoy for her visit to Liberia: "We all know what the United States and President Obama's personal commitment has done for us. She [Ambassador Power] has been on the full front of the Security Council in ensuring that the cooperation that comes from the United States, the United Nations, from other partners and our own efforts joined in that can make a difference. And because of this, today we can say that we are more confident that we have the results from all of this partnership and this cooperative effort that exists. And so Ambassador, we thank you for what you have done to bring us to this point of progress".

Earlier in the day, the US Ambassador arrived in Liberia along with her entourage Tuesday morning and was received at the Roberts International Airport by Foreign Minister Augustine K. Ngafuan and Ambassador Deborah Malac, United States Ambassador to Liberia.

Ambassador Power, upon arrival, visited an Ebola Treat Unit (ETU) under construction at the international airport by the United States troops in Liberia..

Captain Paul Reed, Medical Commander of the USA troop toured Ambassador Power through the ETU, while explaining the particular responsibilities of that ETU.

Ambassador Power thanked the troops on behalf of President Obama and the American People for their vital work which is in the National Security interest of the United States. "What you are doing is a deep reflection of generation of friendship between the American and the Liberian people", stated the US Permanent Representative at the United Nations.

Ambassador Power stressed that if the Ebola epidemic has to be stopped, it must be stopped at its source. She then admonished that in helping the Liberian people, the troops are not only helping them in great time of need but also helping and protecting the safety and health of the American people.

For his part, Foreign Minister Ngafuan thanked the US troops on behalf of the Government and People of Liberia. Minister Ngafuan emphasized that the US troops' work at the ETU testifies the solidity of the partnership between the United States and Liberia. The Foreign Minister assured that Liberia will continue to pray with the troops as they help Liberia in the fight against the Ebola virus disease.

Monrovia is the last stop on her visit to the countries of West Africa that have been hardest hit by the Ebola virus. On Sunday and Monday, she visited Guinea and Sierra Leone, where she met with government leaders and NGOs involved in the anti-Ebola fight. During her first stop in Guinea, she noted that the response by the international community to the epidemic needs to be raised to a "wholly different scale."

After Liberia, Ambassador Power will travel to Ghana for meetings with government leaders and UN officials at UNMEER's headquarters. She will then travel to Brussels where she will meet with European Union and Belgian officials about international efforts to combat the virus and will deliver remarks at the German Marshall Fund about her visit to the Ebola-affected region and the need for a robust, coordinated response.