[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 138 (Wednesday, July 20, 1994)]
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Presidential Documents
Federal Register
Vol. 59, No. 138
Wednesday, July 20, 1994
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Title 3--
The President
Proclamation 6706 of July 15, 1994
Captive Nations Week, 1994
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
This year marks the 35th commemoration of ``Captive
Nations Week,'' our national expression of support for
the people of the world who continue to suffer the yoke
of oppressive governments. Freedom has made great
strides in recent years, thanks to the quiet heroism of
countless men and women. Yet far too many members of
the human family still live in the shadows, shackled
and intimidated in regimes of fear, and we must keep
faith with them.
For over 200 years, this Nation has worked to realize
the vision of freedom articulated by our founders, and
before them by thinkers throughout the ages. Our
commitment to the eternally-unfolding meaning and
spirit of liberty expresses not only our most cherished
values, but also our best hope for long-term
international stability.
Freedom is a work in process. The people of the former
Soviet bloc are making the arduous transition to free
societies and free markets, and we will endeavor to
support them as best we can. Less outwardly dramatic,
but no less moving, are the democratic transitions that
have taken place in Asia, Africa, and Latin America,
and there too, we will do what we can.
But great numbers of men and women are still not free.
Authoritarianism still wields an iron grip over the
lives of millions. And in this new time we are
confronted by the alarming specter of racial, ethnic,
and religious animosities and violence. It is thus all
the more reason for us to recommit ourselves to the
work of promoting respect for universal human rights
and for political freedom for people of all races,
creeds, and nationalities the world over.
The Congress, by Joint Resolution approved July 17,
1959 (73 Stat. 212), has authorized and requested the
President to issue a proclamation designating the third
week in July of each year as ``Captive Nations Week.''
NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the
United States of America, do hereby proclaim July 17
through July 23, 1994, as Captive Nations Week. I call
upon the people of the United States to observe this
week with appropriate ceremonies and activities, and in
so doing to rededicate ourselves to the principles of
freedom and justice on which this Nation was founded
and by which we will endure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen
hundred and ninety-four, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and
nineteenth.
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[FR Doc. 94-17794
Filed 7-18-94; 2:16 pm]
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