Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is seeking legal advice on a truth and reconciliation commission report which recommends she be banned from occupying public office for 30 years.

In a report to parliament released Thursday, Sirleaf said that implementing recommendations on prosecutions and public sanctioning should not be the "sole responsibility of the presidency".

A part of the TRC report which also suggests six former warlords including ex-president Charles Taylor be prosecuted for gross violation of human rights has been "referred to the National Bar Association to study it and advise on the way forward."

This was Sirleaf's first report to parliament on the TRC process, a year after the commission's controversial findings were released, despite an act creating the commission requiring this be done quarterly.

Sirleaf's name was among those on a list of people the TRC accused of having been the financiers and supporters of the different warring factions in Liberia between 1989 and 2003.

Up until now she has not discussed the recommendation concerning herself, and she has announced she will seek a second term in power in 2011 elections, despite initially vowing to step down after only one.

The commission was set up after a succession of bloody civil conflicts that ended in 2003, in which over 200,000 people were killed. Sirleaf was elected in the first post-war poll in 2005.

Regarding a TRC recommendation that all those who suffered war atrocities be compensated with money, Sirleaf said the cost of this would make it impossible.

She proposed that consideration be given to community type reparation within institutions and public facilities -- such as hospitals, schools, churches, mosques -- that were destroyed during the years of conflict.