[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 156 (Tuesday, October 10, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1905-E1906]
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                    WORLD POPULATION AWARENESS WEEK

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                       HON. ROBERT G. TORRICELLI

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, October 10, 1995

  Mr. TORRICELLI. Mr. Speaker, I would like to submit for entry in the 
Congressional Record, this proclamation from the Governor of the State 
of New Jersey on World Population Awareness Week 1995. This week, 
October 22-29, is a time for people all over the planet to consider the 
social, economic, environmental, and political impact that population 
has on our world. World Population Awareness Week is an 11 year 
tradition of the Population Institute. This year's theme is ``Gender 
Equality.''

         State of New Jersey Executive Department--Proclamation

       WHEREAS, world population is currently 5.7 billion and 
     increasing by nearly 100 million per year, with virtually all 
     of this growth added to the poorest countries and regions--
     those that can least afford to accommodate their current 
     populations, much less such massive infusions of human 
     numbers; and
       WHEREAS, the annual increment to world population is 
     projected to exceed 86 million through the year 2015, with 
     three billion people--the equivalent of the entire world 
     population as recently as 1960--reaching their reproductive 
     years within the next generation; and
       WHEREAS, the environmental and economic impacts of this 
     level of growth will almost certainly prevent inhabitants of 
     poorer countries from improving their quality of life, and, 
     at the same time, have deleterious repercussions for the 
     standard of living in more affluent regions; and
       WHEREAS, the 1994 International Conference on Population 
     and Development in Cario, Egypt crafted a 20-year Program of 

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     Action for achieving a more equitable balance between the world's 
     population, environment and resources, that was duly approved 
     by 180 nations, including the United States;
       NOW, THEREFORE, I, CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN, Governor of the 
     State of New Jersey, do hereby proclaim October 22-29, 1995 
     as WORLD POPULATION AWARENESS WEEK in New Jersey.
       GIVEN, under may hand and the Great Seal of the State of 
     New Jersey, this twenty-eighth day of August in the year of 
     Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ninety-five and of the 
     Independence of the United States, the two hundred 
     nineteenth.
                                             Christine T. Whitman,
      Governor.

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