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             UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com UN/ - 2 August 2006 - Today, August 2, 2006, is the day the World Federation of United Nations Associations celebrates its 60th anniversary. 

             We represent tens of thousands of people around the world, with diverse political views, different religious beliefs and cultural values.  

            We share the conviction that the United Nations is the most valuable legacy of the 20th century and is now shaping the course of global politics for the 21st century.

            Under the enlightened leadership of the United States, the United Nations was set up in 1945. 

            Ever since, the United Nations has been at the forefront of creating a world in which member states together decide upon the principles, laws and values that guide the conduct of their relations with each other.  

            The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proclaimed in 1948, has become an increasingly powerful source of influence for the United Nations.   One of its key concepts, the right of peoples to self-determination, has changed the world.  

            It inspired and entitled people in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean to assert their independence from imperial rule and to create over 140 new member states of the United Nations.  

           Today, there are no empires.  There is a global organization that gives voice and a vote to all its member states. 

            At the World Summit held at the United Nations in 2005, governments endorsed new principles to guide their relations with each other.  

            They accepted that the sovereignty of each member state is no longer an unqualified entitlement, but is contingent on the responsibility of governments to protect their citizens from genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity; and they recognised that peace and security, development and human rights are interdependent and the basis of international cooperation. 

           The break-down of empires and the qualification of national sovereignty facilitated by the United Nations have shaped the political context of globalization in the 21st century.

           Government policies are increasingly determined by forces and events that transcend their borders and which demand engagement with a wide variety of non-state actors.   The United Nations is in a continuous process of reform and renewal to adjust to these changing realities. 

           The people of the world need the United Nations and the United Nations needs their support. 

           With changing times and circumstances, through good and prosperous times or difficult and threatening times, the World Federation of United Nations Associations has been faithful to the ideals of the United Nations.  

           We remain committed to supporting the United Nations as the most essential instrument for shaping a fair and peaceful world in the 21st century.  

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