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U.
N. Democracy Caucus
The UNA-USA National Convention 2003
Recalling
that the Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan
stated at the inaugural conference of the Community of Democracies
in Warsaw, 2000, "I am particularly gratified that this
new coalition is meeting to support the founding values of
our Organization, as set out in the Charter and in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights...(and that) the theme of this
conference, 'Towards a Community of Democracies' represents
my own most profound aspiration for the United Nations as
a whole...;"
Recognizing
that the formation of a "U.N. democracy caucus",
proposed by the Community of Democracies at the Ministerial
Conferences held in June 2000 in Warsaw, Poland and in November
2002 in Seoul, Korea, and at a parallel Nongovernmental Forum,
would serve to broaden the participation by such U.N. member
states in the Organization's decision-making process;
Recognizing
further that legislation (H.R. 1590) is currently before the
House of Representatives that calls on the United States to
initiate efforts to establish a democracy caucus at the United
Nations;
Mindful
that the proposed U.N. democracy caucus would work to ensure
that all democratic nations within the U.N. membership be
strengthened;
Noting
that UNA-USA was the first organization to propose a U.N.
democracy caucus in its 1996 Global Policy Project report
and did so a second time at its National
Convention in New York in 2001; and
Observing
that it is the declared policy of the United States to support
and foster democratic governance worldwide, including within
the United Nations,
Therefore,
RESOLVES
that UNA-USA strongly recommend that the democratic member
states of the United Nations be strengthened in part by the
formation of a U.N. democracy caucus and, further, that full
support for such caucus be proclaimed by the United States
Government at the highest level and in a manner that reflects
a dynamic policy of fostering democracy worldwide which will
depend on collaboration with other democratic nations and
with those nations that aspire to democratic governance.
ADOPTED
6/29
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