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 89 STAT. 1304

PROCLAMATION 4400—OCT. 13, 1975 requested the President to issue an annual proclamation calling for the observance of that week. NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe the week beginning October 19, 1975, as National Forest Products Week, with activities and ceremonies designed to direct public attention to our forest resources which have benefited us materially and spiritually and which we must act to preserve. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this third day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundredth. GERALD R.

Proclamation 4400

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October 13, 1975

United Nations Day, 1975

By the President of the United States of America, A Proclamation

59 Stat. 1031.

Each year, throughout the world, nations commemorate October 24 as United Nations Day. This year is the 30th Anniversary of the United Nations Charter. Originally with 51 nations as members, the United Nations today includes 141 nations, thus membership is nearly universal. The primary purpose of the United Nations is to maintain international peace and security. Had the work of the organization included nothing more than its efforts for peace in the Middle East—through truce observers, emergency forces, and mediation services—it would have justified its existence. But its record of achievement is far greater, and it continues to face new tasks with skill and imagination. Today, the United Nations is adjusting to the new realities of economic interdependence. At the Seventh Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September of this year, great progress was made toward reaching agreements through which the interests of all nations— less developed as well as developed—can be promoted through coopera-

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