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Maplewood Mayor Robert Bruton0eq. 1 ' n 1 s
recentlyMsteps toward peace in the Middle East.
proclaimed United Nations DayThe 7th Special Session of the General
in the city, issuing the following Assembly marked a beginning of a new
proclamation:
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"This year the peoples of the world will and tdev]pingt ween countries on economic
celebrate the 30th anniversary of the matters. The International Women'ic
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United Nations on October 24, UN Day. Conference held in Mexico City this
This is an appropriate occasion for people summer adopted a World Plan of Action
everywhere to renew their adherence to which includes virtually every aspect of
the Charter ideals of peace and human contemporary life
rights and their determination to promote education, employment,civil
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economic and social progress and a nutrition, among others.
greater manure of justice and freedom for "NOW, THEREFORE, I
all. Robert
"This year finds us at a turningBruton, Mayor of Maplewood do hereby
world affairs. We sense the promise of a Nations Day anproclaim d ca011 upon 1975ll the Uniteds
more peaceful world and the opportunity of Maplewood to obserthat day citizens
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for new strides in international spirit of common
rpose cooperation.To maintain this momentum the United Nations Charter.
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will require still greater efforts and more everyone, groups or individuals, to
effective international institutions. We urge
need to create new arrangements to designed to develop an understanding of
participate in programs and activities
control new technologies for the common the problems and
potentials of the United
good. We must continue to recognize the Nations and to stimulate discussionsof
interests of rich and poor countries on ways to make the United Nations into a
matters of trade and aid.Equal rights for more effective organization. I ask all
all peoples must become a reality in fact citizens to observe United Nations Day
as well as law.
"Important steps have alread with a sense of rededication to the high
taken by the United Nations in meeting to be self-evident, as expressed for us in
Y een truths which we in the United States hold
these challenges. The UN has once again the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and
provided a mutually acceptable for all the world in the Charter of the
mechanism for carrying out the next United Nations.