According to a dispatch from P aris, France, the main purpose of the meeting was to seek WMO's technical assistance to support the Government of Liberia to rehabilitate the meteorological services of the country through the ongoing Global Environmental Facility(GEF), the UNDP Early Warning System Project.

During the meeting, Minister Cassell Bush drew the attention of the WMO Secretary General to the need to consider the cancellation of Liberia's debt to the WMO in the amount of almost half of million United States Dollars.

The World Meteorological Organization(WMO) executive informed Minister Cassell Bush that Liberia request will be taken to the WMO Congress for consideration, and also informed her to explore other options through bilateral and multilateral means.

Liberia's debt to the organization is as a result of arrears that the Government of Liberia had not paid for almost twenty years. This had led Liberia to loose her voting rights at WMO.

The WMO Secretary General Michel Jarraud thanked Minister Cassell Bush for her tremendous effort in rehabilitating the meteorological services of Liberia and assured her of WMO's readiness to support the strengthening of meteorological services in the country.

During the Meeting, The WMO Secretary General informed Minister Cassell Bush that WMO had concluded an agreement with the Nigeria Meteorological Agency to assist some African countries including Liberia to train weather experts of those countries to report to the public on weather information on a daily basis through mobile telephone, radio and television services.

The Ministry of Transport is the statutory arm of the Government of Liberia that is responsible for meteorological services in the country.