IV 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1024 
Recognizing the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 25, 2020 
Ms. LEE of California (for herself, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. BASS, 
Mr. COSTA, Mr. CASE, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. RUSH, Mr. CARSON of Indi-
ana, Mr. GARAMENDI, Ms. JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. 
COHEN, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Mr. DEFAZIO, Ms. WILD, Mr. TRONE, Ms. 
MENG, Ms. NORTON, Mrs. LEE of Nevada, Mr. RASKIN, and Mr. 
HUFFMAN) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the 75th anniversary of the establishment of 
the United Nations. 
Whereas President Franklin Delano Roosevelt coined the 
phrase ‘‘United Nations’’ in January 1942; 
Whereas 50 countries met in San Francisco to draw up the 
Charter of the United Nations in 1945; 
Whereas, on June 26, 1945, the Charter of the United Na-
tions was signed in San Francisco at the conclusion of 
the United Nations Conference on International Organi-
zation, and came into force on October 24, 1945; 
Whereas, June 26, 2020, marks the 75th anniversary of the 
establishment of the United Nations; 
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Whereas, on September 10, 1948, the United Nations Gen-
eral Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of 
Human Rights, which is the cornerstone for modern-day 
human rights and the world’s most translated document; 
Whereas, in September 1960, 17 newly independent coun-
tries, including 16 from Africa, joined the United Na-
tions, marking the biggest increase in membership in any 
one year; 
Whereas the United Nations has greatly contributed to inter-
national peace and security; 
Whereas the United Nations has provided a forum for the 
achievement of international cooperation to address inter-
national economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian 
problems, including promoting cooperation on climate 
change, supporting human rights, and combating human 
trafficking; 
Whereas, since 1948, the United Nations has deployed 71 
peacekeeping and observation missions in some of the 
world’s most complex regions and countries, including in 
Cambodia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Liberia, Cote 
d’Ivoire, Kosovo, Mozambique, Namibia, Tajikistan, and 
Timor-Leste; 
Whereas the United Nations peacekeeping missions have been 
charged with mandates to stabilize conflict zones after a 
cease-fire, assist in the implementation of comprehensive 
peace agreements, protect civilians from violence, facili-
tate delivery of humanitarian assistance to vulnerable 
communities, and the creation of stable governing institu-
tions in fragile states; 
Whereas the United Nations peacekeepers played an instru-
mental role in stabilizing Liberia following two dev-
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astating civil wars, paving the way in 2018 for the first 
peaceful transition of power between democratically elect-
ed Presidents in the country since 1944; 
Whereas the United Nations peacekeepers helped to avert a 
genocide in the Central African Republic, continue to 
protect tens of thousands of civilians from ethnic and po-
litical violence in South Sudan, provide security to health 
workers battling the second largest Ebola outbreak in 
history in eastern Congo, and play an important role in 
ensuring that calm and stability prevail along the Israel- 
Lebanon border; 
Whereas, in 2006, under the leadership of the United Na-
tions, member nations adopted the first-ever global strat-
egy to counter terrorism and subsequently other global 
agreements, including agreements against hostage taking, 
aircraft hijacking, terrorism bombings, and terrorism fi-
nancing; 
Whereas the United States has used its permanent seat on 
the United Nations Security Council to push for the 
adoption of multilateral sanctions, including asset freezes, 
travel bans, arms embargoes, trade restrictions, and 
other measures, against terrorist organizations like al- 
Qaida, ISIS, and rogue states that seek to obtain weap-
ons of mass destruction, like North Korea; 
Whereas the United Nations has provided electoral assistance 
to more than 100 countries and helped facilitate the 
transition to democracy in these countries, observing 
landmark elections in Cambodia, El Salvador, South Afri-
ca, Mozambique, Timor-Leste, Liberia, Iraq, Nepal, Af-
ghanistan, and Sierra Leone; 
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Whereas the United Nations adopted the 17 Sustainable De-
velopment Goals in September 2015, requiring member 
nations to commit to eradicating extreme poverty, fight-
ing inequality, empowering women and girls, protecting 
natural resources, improving governance, and encour-
aging sustainable and inclusive economic growth; 
Whereas the United Nations has played a critical role in im-
proving global public health, including through the Joint 
United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS; 
Whereas the World Health Organization, a United Nations 
specialized agency, serves as a multilateral coordinating 
body responsible for monitoring and leading the response 
to outbreaks of infectious disease, spearheading vaccina-
tion efforts, and developing campaigns to combat life- 
threatening illnesses like polio and malaria; 
Whereas the World Health Organization played a central role 
in the eradication of smallpox in 1979, to date the only 
human disease ever to be eradicated; 
Whereas the United Nations Population Fund aims to end 
unmet need for family planning, end preventable mater-
nal deaths, and end gender-based violence and harmful 
practices such as child marriage and female genital muti-
lation by 2030 in all countries, including those affected 
by conflict and disaster; 
Whereas the United Nations Population Fund has helped re-
duce maternal mortality by half since 1990; 
Whereas the United Nations Children’s Fund is active in 190 
countries and territories to reach the children and young 
people in greatest need; 
Whereas the United Nations World Food Program reaches 
more than 86,000,000 people in 83 countries annually; 
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