Message from the PresidentWelcome to the Friends of the United Nations web site. I hope you will find it exciting, informative and engaging. I hope you will find it also to be an easy reference guide and a reliable source on what is really happening within the United Nations family. Finally I hope it will help you to better appreciate the uniqueness of the United Nations and the scope of its activities which touches almost all areas of the human enterprise. |
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As it enters its
seventh decade, the United Nations finds itself
facing
challenges of unprecedented scope and intensity
in a radically altered geopolitical and social landscape from that of its founding years. It is thus obliged to continuously adapt as it moves
through multiple transitions. To this end the
site hopes to provide much clearer perspectives
and how the transition is being managed as it
seeks to keep its promise to humanity. Amid the
swirling pressures that daily buffet the
organization at least one constant will be kept
in view: that the purposes and principles on
which it was founded remain more valid than ever
and that “we the people” in the name of whom it
was founded have a responsibility to remain well
informed and to work with the UN to enhance
those values on which a secure human future
rests. This site hopes
to work with you towards these ends. It will
provide you two way communications where your
feedback will be welcomed and your opinions
valued. But above all it will endeavor to
reflect the United Nations in a fair, clear and
balanced way and your responses will help us
achieve these objectives. I am confident
that together we can mobilize the will necessary
to make the UN a vibrant and dynamic entity,
which despite all its shortcomings remains
humanity’s “last, best hope for peace.” — Dr. Noel J.
Brown
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