United Nations Day, 2020, 68707-68708 [2020-24169]

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[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 210 (Thursday, October 29, 2020)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 68707-68708]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-24169]



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Vol. 85

Thursday,

No. 210

October 29, 2020

Part IV





The President





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Proclamation 10105--United Nations Day, 2020


                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 85 , No. 210 / Thursday, October 29, 2020 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Proclamation 10105 of October 23, 2020

                
United Nations Day, 2020

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Today, on the 75th anniversary of the United Nations 
                (UN), we celebrate its commitment to peace and 
                security, prosperity, human rights, rule of law, and 
                development. The victorious Allies conceived the UN in 
                the ashes of two devastating world wars, welcoming all 
                nations to join together to ensure peace and promote 
                economic prosperity. As a founding member of the UN, 
                which was chartered in San Francisco and is 
                headquartered in New York, the United States remains 
                dedicated to those noble UN purposes and principles. We 
                also recognize that the successes of the UN and its 
                specialized agencies were built on precepts that ensure 
                its good functioning: independence, impartiality, good 
                governance, accountability, and transparency.

                Because of our continuing belief in the UN's promise 
                and our desire to see it be effective over the next 75 
                years, we are determined to make the UN more agile, 
                effective, efficient, transparent, and accountable. 
                These efforts will help the UN improve, adapt to 
                crises, and reach its full potential. If the UN is to 
                be an effective organization, it must focus on the real 
                problems of the world, including terrorism, the 
                oppression of women, forced labor, drug cartels, human 
                and sex trafficking, religious persecution, and the 
                ethnic cleansing of religious minorities.

                The United States is forging a new path of 
                unprecedented domestic and global prosperity, 
                cooperation, and peace. Last month, I brokered historic 
                peace deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates 
                and Israel and Bahrain, paving the way for broader 
                peace in the Middle East. Known as the Abraham Accords, 
                these diplomatic breakthroughs reflect the shared 
                commitment of every well-intentioned member state to 
                achieve tranquility in the region once and for all. 
                Just today, the leaders of Sudan and Israel also agreed 
                to the normalization of relations between their two 
                countries. In response to Iran's nefarious actions, the 
                United States withdrew from the disastrous Iran Nuclear 
                Deal, and re-imposed sanctions on the Iranian regime. 
                In Europe, my Administration brokered a historic deal 
                on Serbia-Kosovo economic normalization, accelerating 
                economic growth and job creation opportunities. After 
                more than 20 years of limited progress on political 
                negotiations in the Balkans, the commitments made by 
                President Vu[ccaron]i[cacute] and Prime Minister Hoti 
                are the first steps in achieving long-term peace and 
                stability in the region. The United States invites all 
                fellow UN Security Council members to join in our 
                country's efforts to promote liberty and freedom across 
                the globe.

                The United States also encourages the international 
                community to provide complete accountability, 
                responsiveness, and transparency in sharing public 
                health data as we fight the coronavirus pandemic. My 
                Administration maintains that effective relief depends 
                on global public health coordination and widespread 
                access to medical information coupled with personal 
                privacy and security protections. Our recent decision 
                to withdraw from the World Health Organization 
                underscores our firm commitment to hold governmental 
                organizations accountable when they succumb to 
                political influence and fail to uphold their core 
                values. The Chinese Government has misled the

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                international community since the outbreak in Wuhan, 
                and the UN must join with the United States in holding 
                China accountable for its actions.

                The United States recognizes the integral role the UN 
                has played in the international system for 75 years and 
                honors those who have nobly dedicated their lives to 
                global humanitarian and peacekeeping missions and to 
                setting the conditions for development and prosperity. 
                We also note with great satisfaction the awarding of 
                the Nobel Peace Prize to the Whole Food Program, which 
                the United States has supported more generously than 
                any other member state since 1961.

                The United States proudly remains the largest and most 
                reliable supporter of the UN and its founding 
                principles. It is in that spirit that we call on all 
                nations to join the United States in working to ensure 
                the UN continues to live up to its noble ideals of 
                liberty, prosperity, and the pursuit of world peace.

                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, 2020, 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 twenty, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and forty-
                fifth.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

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