[United States Statutes at Large, Volume 117, 108th Congress, 1st Session]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

Proclamation 7726 of October 24, 2003
 
United Nations Day, 2003

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

The United Nations is a vital international arena for countries to
cooperate in pursuit of political, economic, and social freedoms.
Founded by 51 Member countries after World War II, the organization has
grown through the years to include 191 Member States. On United Nations
Day, we celebrate the organization's founding principles of freedom,
democracy, and human rights, and we recognize the contributions of the
United Nations to improving lives around the world.
As an original signatory of the United Nations Charter, the United
States continues to advance the United Nations' founding principles. We
are working with the United Nations to reduce conflicts around the
world, fight terrorism, abolish trafficking in persons, and support
those in need, including the people of Afghanistan and Iraq as they
continue to build free and stable countries. As we commemorate the 58th
anniversary of the United Nations, we honor the victims of the recent
bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad who worked to
advance peace and freedom.
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, 2003, as
United Nations Day. 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 the observance of United
Nations Day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-fourth day
of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand three, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-
eighth.
GEORGE W. BUSH


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