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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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Collection: Correspondence, White House Office of:
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Folder Title: Pan American Day and Pan American
Week
Box: 82 (1987)
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8 THE UNITED THE
to
Pan American Day and Pan American
Week, 1987
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
The nations of the Americas enjoy a rich cultural and historical diversity, yet
are bound together by a common dedication to the principles of democracy; to
respect the rights of the individual; and to the opportunity to enjoy creative,
productive, and prosperous lives. Pan American Day each year has served to
remind us of these mutual goals.
The Organization of American States is the forum in which our governments
labor to make these ideals and aspirations a reality in our daily lives. For
decades, the Inter-American System has been utilized across a broad range of
common concerns: to maintain the peace throughout this Hemisphere; to
encourage both political and economic freedom for every citizen; to promote
development and provide opportunity for both men and women, of all races
and all creeds; and to defend the human rights of all against repression and
threats to their dignity.
The Organization has a truly remarkable record as a defender, and a beacon,
for all peoples whose rights have been trampled upon and denied, especially
for the peoples of this Hemisphere. It has now taken up the challenge against
yet another menace-drug abuse and trafficking-that threatens the future of
our children, the well-being of our peoples, and even the stability of our
governments. The newly created Drug Abuse Control Commission offers a
common meeting place where all of us can join forces to defeat this latest
enemy to freedom and democracy.
On September 2 of this year, the nations of the Americas will celebrate the
fortieth anniversary of the signing of the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal
Assistance, in which they pledged to preserve their security. This Rio Treaty,
born of the totalitarian threat to the region before and during World War II,
has been strengthened ever since by resolute defense, against repeated at-
tacks, of our common determination that this Hemisphere shall be a land of
liberty.
This is a time when the vision of democracy and freedom in all our countries,
to which we are committed in the Charter of our Organization, shines forth as
never before. So Pan American Day of 1987 is an especially welcome occasion
for the people of the United States of America to extend a warm and fraternal
hand to our neighbors in the Americas. We renew our commitment to the
spirit of hemispheric solidarity, to the purposes of the Inter-American System,
and to the Organization of American States as the embodiment of our high
aspirations for this Hemisphere.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of
America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim Tuesday, April 14, 1987, as Pan
American Day, and the week of April 12 through April 18, 1987, as Pan
American Week. I urge the Governors of the fifty States, and the Governor of
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and officials of other areas under the flag
of the United States of America to honor these observances with appropriate
activities and ceremonies.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this ninth day of April,
in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and eleventh.
Ronald Reagan