[Federal Register: October 28, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 208)]
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                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.

                    (Presidential Sig.)B

[FR Doc. 03-27339
Filed 10-27-03; 11:24 am]

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