[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 72 (Thursday, April 13, 2000)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 19819-19820]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-9330]


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 Title 3--
 The President

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                Proclamation 7288 of April 8, 2000

                
Pan American Day and Pan American Week, 2000

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                    This year on Pan American Day and during Pan 
                American Week, we celebrate the springtime of a new 
                century in which the fundamental ideals of democracy 
                and human rights are blossoming across our hemisphere. 
                We stand at the threshold of a new era of economic 
                development and prosperity with a common determination 
                to meet the challenges and seize the opportunities that 
                face the Americas.
                    Building on the agreements forged at the last two 
                Summits of the Americas in Miami and Santiago, we are 
                witnessing unprecedented cooperation within our 
                hemisphere. Efforts such as the negotiations on a Free 
                Trade Area of the Americas, now progressing toward a 
                concrete agreement in 2005, exemplify our commitment to 
                building a self-sustaining and widely shared 
                prosperity. We continue to work creatively through the 
                Organization of American States to encourage 
                constitutional solutions to political crises such as 
                those that occurred in Paraguay and Ecuador. And we 
                have witnessed elections in our region that were models 
                of civic participation and a testament to the strength 
                and vibrancy of democratic government in the Western 
                Hemisphere. Such achievements illustrate that the well-
                being of our neighbors is fundamental to our own 
                security and prosperity. We look forward to the Third 
                Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, where the 
                democratically elected leaders of 34 nations from 
                North, Central, and South America will gather to review 
                our progress, identify new challenges, and further 
                enhance our cooperation.-
                    Even with our significant progress, however, 
                challenges remain. The 34 free and democratically 
                elected nations of this hemisphere must work together 
                to ensure that Cuba, the only country that has not 
                embraced our common vision, becomes a member of our 
                community of democracies. By doing so, we can ensure 
                that all the people in our hemisphere share in the 
                blessings of freedom and in the promise of the global 
                economy, living and working and raising their families 
                in dignity and with hope for the future.
                    NOW, THEREFORE I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, 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 Friday, April 14, 
                2000, as Pan American Day and April 9 through April 15, 
                2000 as Pan American Week. I urge the Governors of the 
                50 States, the Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto 
                Rico, and the officials of other areas under the flag 
                of the United States to honor these observances with 
                appropriate ceremonies and activities.

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                    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand 
                this eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand, and of the Independence of the United States 
                of America the two hundred and twenty-fourth.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

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