Posted on 10/23/2002 7:05:27 PM PDT by USA21
Text: Bush Proclamation on United Nations Day
(U.N. founded October 24, 57 years ago) (480)
President Bush has proclaimed October 24 United Nations Day to mark the founding 57 years ago of the international institution.
In his proclamation statement, the President said the United States, as a founding member of the U.N., reaffirms its dedication to this "vital organization" and hopes it will continue to fulfill the vision of its founders.
Following is the text of the proclamation:
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THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary October 23, 2002
UNITED NATIONS DAY, 2002 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
The United Nations was founded 57 years ago to improve our global community by strengthening the ties among member nations through improved communication, expanded understanding, and enhanced security. On United Nations Day, America joins the world in commemorating the founding of this important international organization and recognizing the profound impact it has had on our world and the role that it continues to play.
Since October 24, 1945, the United Nations Organization has grown to include 191 member states. Through its relief agencies, the U.N. aids and protects millions of refugees and displaced persons worldwide. For example, in 2001, the United Nations World Food Program provided aid to 77 million people in 82 countries and helped to avert a severe famine that threatened Afghanistan. The U.N. also seeks to improve living conditions around the globe by immunizing children, providing safe drinking water, and fighting disease.
The United States remains committed to helping the U.N. to advance human rights, healthcare, security, and education throughout the world; and we will continue to meet these and other commitments as we rejoin the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Our country continues to work with the U.N. in supplying aid for nations and peoples in need or distress, and in providing medical care and other essentials through U.N. agencies such as UNICEF.
As our world faces new challenges and opportunities, the efforts of the United Nations take on a renewed significance. The United States recognizes the U.N. for its efforts to support and strengthen the international coalition against global terror. And we hope the United Nations will fulfill its role in addressing the threats posed to the civilized world, particularly the threat now posed by Iraq. As a founding member of the U.N., the United States reaffirms our dedication to this vital organization and our hope that it will continue to fulfill the vision of its founders.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 24, 2002, as United Nations Day. I call upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate programs and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-third day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-seventh.
GEORGE W. BUSH
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(Distributed by the Office of International Information Programs, U.S.
Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)
Mr. President, no disrespect intended ... and perhaps you even had this in mind ... but here's my program for the UN:
I think the UN should be relocated to Baghdad, soon.
The goal of the UN is nothing less than global government run by tryanical marxists. As such, the US should add it to the "axis of evil".
The U.N. is worse than useless. It is a liability.
Evict the U.N. now! Send their useless @sses to France, and may the rest heavily upon the french.
Don't worry. It's all part of his brilliant plan to destroy the UN by giving it more money.
Yeah, right before we start bombing Baghdad!
Ha-ha.
I wonder were we would be if AlBore had won?
Shhhhhh!
I think we should move it there "in the interest of world peace". Globalists from all over the world would flock there.
People have stated that the War on Terror is being used to prop up the New World Order, or rather One World Government. It's hard to deny that it's not happening given the constitutional rights being violated in the post September 11 world, not to mention the propping up of global institutions such as the UN, an organization of which members have stated that we should at least look at euthanasia. Human Rights my butt.
The activities pictured in #6 and #7 seem quite appropriate.
I will happily celebrate by burning a UN flag. Please join me and don't forget to get a permit from your homeboys. Don't forget to inform your local paper and radio/tv affiliates. Let's show the UN what we really think of them. George, this is one of the main reasons you will not get my vote in 2004.
Ewwww. Gross. The only appropriate activity I can think of is defecating on a UN flag.
F--- the UN!!!! Appropriate enough for you??? Grrrr!!!
Death To all Tyrant's !!
Snuff Saddam, NOW !!
The RATS Are In Disarray...Eradicate The Rodents !!
Fire Democrats, Hire Republicans !!
GWB Is The Man !!
The Second Amendment...
America's Original Homeland Security !!
Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!
Let's Roll !!
Molon Labe !!
The United States Military Observer Group in the Pentagon confirms that U.S. soldiers wear U.N. blue berets and U.N. shoulder patches as members of UNOMIG - the United Nations Observer Mission in the country of Georgia. Soldiers ordered assigned to this mission wear this U.N. uniform. What's more, they receive a United Nations physical examination before deployment to the mission and the U.N. pays some expenses associated with it. The purpose is to supervise the cease-fire between Georgia and Abkhazia. The U.S. troops take orders in the mission from a foreign commander named Major-General Kazi Ashfaq Ahmed of Bangladesh. After their service, members of UNOMIG may receive a ribbon described as "Central stripe of UN blue, flanked by white and green stripes, with dark blue edges."
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