Thank you for joining the more than
11,500 people from 146 countries who signed the
petition to the right.
This important message was sent to world leaders on
your behalf, and with your help, the world's leaders
agreed on June 28, 2006 to keep the United Nations
fully funded and moving forward toward meaningful
reform.
In telling
world leaders that you understand the indispensable
role that the UN plays as an agent of peace and
prosperity around the world, you affirmed that every
nation must honor its commitment to keep the UN's
work moving forward. Thank you for being a part
of the coalition bringing together the world's nations
to work together for a shared the vision of a UN
that really works, for the benefit of all the world's
peoples.
We
the undersigned believe:
The United Nations is facing a crisis.
Strong differences of opinion about
the direction of reform and governance
at the UN threaten to collide with
a rapidly approaching spending cap.
Unresolved, these differences could
paralyze the UN - paralyze diplomacy,
paralyze operations, and paralyze
the reform process. Some UN operations
could even be curtailed or shutdown.
Ongoing political crisis, including
the threat of the shutdown of some
UN operations, does not serve the
interests of any nation or group of
nations and would represent a failure
of diplomacy by all leaders and governmental
representatives responsible for stewarding
the United Nations’ essential
functions.
The United Nations has operated uninterrupted
as a platform for global peace and
progress for more than 60 years. A
political stand-off, or shutdown of
UN operations now, for the first time
in its history, would have significant
consequences for the UN’s development,
security and humanitarian efforts.
The UN is a work in progress, but
remains the world’s hope for
international cooperation. All nations
and peoples have a shared interest
that its important work continues,
uninterrupted. We, the undersigned,
urge world leaders to forge the common
ground necessary to allow the United
Nations to continue its life-saving
work.
