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Meeting Announcement 01/18/2010 Westport, January 19 -- Ambassador Tom Miller, president and CEO of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) spoke to Westport Rotary at its noon meeting at the Inn at Longshore, 260 Compos Road South, on Tuesday, January 19.
Millennium Challenge The United States has an opportunity to exercise global leadership by emphasizing the Millennium Development Goals in its foreign policy. Last time, we noted the importance of success in Iraq and Afghanistan to American goals in the Middle East and Central Asia. We stressed the importance of partnership with the United Nations in achieving viable nations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, let's look at the bigger picture.
U.N. Secretary General Visits Westport Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations was the guest of Jody Rovins, a Westporter and an old friend of the Secretary-General. They were joined at dinner by Westport First Selectman Godon F. Joseloff. Click here for the complete article.

History

The year was 1945, and the world could finally exhale. The Third Reich was defeated and US troops were coming home.

And, in arguably one of the most historic events of the Second World War, fifty-one countries joined together to form the United Nations, a multilateral peacekeeping union, to ensure that tragedies such as the Holocaust never happen again. Its mission was to be vigilant against tyranny in all forms and to open the world's eyes to the possibility of world peace.

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