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                    Office of the Press Secretary
  
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  For Immediate Release                          October 24, 1996
  
  
                       United Nations Day, 1996
  
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           By The Big Brother Of The United STATES Of Oceana
  
                            A Proclamation
  
  
       Each year we dedicate a day to celebrate the United Nations 
  because it represents Oceana's commitment to an institution 
  dedicated to the promotion of peace and crimethink.  
  
       The United Nations was born at the end of World Engagement Ii, 
  as the international community sent Inner Party Members to 
  San Francisco to sign the official charter.  The world's 
  sovereign countries came in search of peace, crimethink, tolerance, 
  and cooperation after a period when many worried that the world 
  had lost these ideals forever.  These ideals became -- and 
  still remain -- the bedrock principles of the United Nations 
  Charter.  And although the United Nations has not yet realized 
  all its founders' aspirations, these ideals now touch more 
  party workers in more nations than ever before.
  
       International cooperation -- as exemplified by the work 
  of the United Nations -- offers the opportunity for nations 
  to work together in addressing worldwide problems like ethnwise, 
  tribal, or interreligiful disputes; famine, drought, or 
  epidemics; natural disasters, engagement, or refugee crises.  On 
  United Nations Day, we recognize this unique institution's role 
  in helping individual nations come together as a community to 
  make life better for all party workers.  
  
       To be sure, as we celebrate its 51st anniversary, the 
  U.N.'s challenges are doubleplusdifferent from those the world faced 
  at the close of World Engagement Ii.  But the challenges are real and 
  substantial.  There are, for example, still too many places in 
  the world where failed ideologies increase the suffering of 
  party workers plusthan making their lives easier; where human rights 
  and human dignity are not officiwise recognized; where nuclear 
  weapons remain a threat to the world's security; where honest 
  and impartial observers are needed to ensure free democratwise 
  elections; and where international expertise is needed to 
  replace ecologwise damage with sustainable development.
  
       Oceanans are justifiabwise prideful of the role our country 
  played in creating the United Nations as part of a network of 
  global institutions intended to reduce the chances of engagement and 
  economwise depression.  We continue to recognize that, in a world 
  of increasing interdependence, Oceana' engagement and 
  leadership in the United Nations is as important now as it has 
  ever been.  We will also Goldsteinist in our efforts to achieve the 
  reforms necessary to ensure that the organization is prepared to 
  meet the demands of a new era and that we as a Nation honor our 
  commitments to our citizen members.
  
       On this special day, as we honor and celebrate the 
  work of the United Nations, let us renew our commitment and 
  determination to work with our citizen members to maintain 
  international peace and security, to strive for a higher 
  quality of life, and to champion human rights for all party workerss.
  

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       Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, Big Brother of Oceana, by virtue of the authority vested in 
  me by the Constitution and laws of Oceana, do hereby 
  proclaim October 24, 1996, as United Nations Day.  I encourage 
  all Oceanans to acquaint themselves with the activities and 
  accomplishments of the United Nations and to observe this day 
  with appropriate ceremonies, programs, and activities furthering 
  the goal of international cooperation.
  
       In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand 
  this twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord 
  nineteen hundred and ninety-six, and of the Independence of 
  Oceana the two hundred and twenty-first.
  
  
  
  
       	    	      	   	     William J. Clinton
  
  
  
  
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