    [United States Statutes at Large, Volume 132, 115th Congress, 2nd Session]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    Proclamation 9810 of October 23, 2018

    United Nations Day, 2018

    By the President of the United States of America

    A Proclamation

    On United Nations Day, we recognize the many ways the United Nations has
    contributed to peace and security among nations. Since it was founded
    more than 70 years ago with the aim of breaking the cycle of global
    conflict, the United Nations has provided a forum for nations to resolve
    conflicts peacefully in an increasingly complex world. The United States
    is committed to the organization's future and is confident that
    responsibility more equally shared among member states will lead to
    greater effectiveness and efficiency.
    The United States has, since the beginning, provided leadership and
    vision to the United Nations. Today, the United States continues to
    drive the United Nations forward, insisting on fundamental reforms that
    are needed to enable the organization to respond to the unique and
    evolving problems of the 21st century. Only when each country does its
    part can the highest aspirations of the United Nations be realized, and
    the financial responsibility for an organization like the United Nations
    must be equitably shared among its member states. Additionally, in
    recent months, the United States has pressed for crucial changes to
    improve the organization's performance, accountability, and
    responsiveness. The United States pursuit of reform, however, does not
    end there. Earlier this year, the United States sent a clear message
    about the need for change by withdrawing from the flawed United Nations
    Human Rights Council, which repeatedly rejected necessary reforms. We
    will not return until real reform is enacted, and we will not hesitate
    to take the measures necessary to protect America's interests or to
    better enable the United Nations to fulfill its purpose.
    The United Nations is an important forum for addressing the
    international challenges we face today. In the past year, the United
    States has taken bold steps, with the support of the United Nations, to
    address the global threat of nuclear proliferation; worked with partners

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    to increase their capacity for sustained humanitarian response and with
    donors and implementing organizations to make humanitarian aid more
    efficient; supported United Nations Security Council action to improve
    the international response to regional conflicts; and brought attention
    to human rights abuses. The great progress achieved on these fronts
    harbingers the limitless potential of the United Nations to help
    confront these and other challenges.
    When the United Nations lives up to its lofty ideals, it is an
    invaluable forum for cooperation among the peoples of the world. On this
    day, we celebrate the combined efforts of member states to achieve the
    United Nations' goals of international peace and security and developing
    friendly relations among nations. We also acknowledge all the men and
    women who are serving around the world in peacekeeping and humanitarian
    missions, and all those who work to keep our world safe from weapons of
    mass destruction.
    NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of
    America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and
    the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 24, 2018, as
    United Nations Day. I urge the Governors of the 50 States, the Governor
    of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the officials of all other areas
    under the flag of the United States, to observe United Nations Day with
    appropriate ceremonies 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 eighteen, and of the
    Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-
    third.
    DONALD J. TRUMP