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Ask Your Senators to Help Fund the UN's Peacekeeping & Humanitarian Efforts in 2010
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  2. Created By
    Alan Haggard
    San Diego, CA
About this Petition Pledge

Right now, legislators in the Senate Appropriations Committee are negotiating the contents of the U.S. budget for next year. The President and Secretary Clinton presented Congress with a budget that would keep the U.S. from sliding into debt at the UN by including the full amount the U.S. will owe for UN peacekeeping and other international organizations in 2010.

Please tell your Senator to support the President’s request to fully fund the peacekeeping and international organizations accounts. 

We support the President’s robust request for the international affairs budget, but there are some who think funding is ripe for cuts. As a member of the Appropriations Committee, your Senator’s support is necessary to ensure Congress doesn’t slip behind in its UN payments next year. 

Now is your chance to tell your Senator to support full funding of the President’s request for $2.26 billion for UN peacekeeping and $1.8 billion for international organizations. This amounts to $4.06 billion of the $53.9 billion allocated for international affairs in the 2010 budget.

These funds will support life-saving responses to humanitarian crises like that now under way in Pakistan, where UN agencies are providing shelter, food, and medical supplies to over 2 million refugees who have fled violence in the Swat Valley region. American dollars will also enable peacekeeping missions that the U.S. has used its Security Council vote to create in some of the world’s most precarious places, including Haiti, Lebanon, and Sudan.

We expect Senate appropriators to have finalized negotiations about next year’s budget as early as this Friday, so please act now.

Thank you for all that you do in support of reengaging U.S. leadership through multilateral institutions.

Sincerely, 
The Better World Campaign team
http://www.betterworldcampaign.org/

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Right now, legislators in the Senate Appropriations Committee are negotiating the contents of the U.S. budget for next year. The President and Secretary Clinton presented Congress with a budget that would keep the U.S. from sliding into debt at the UN by including the full amount the U.S. will owe for UN peacekeeping and other international organizations in 2010.<br /><br /><a href="https://secure.globalproblems-globalsolutions.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=198">Please tell your Senator to support the President&rsquo;s request to fully fund the peacekeeping and international organizations accounts.&nbsp;</a><br /><br />We support the President&rsquo;s robust request for the international affairs budget, but there are some who think funding is ripe for cuts. As a member of the Appropriations Committee, your Senator&rsquo;s support is necessary to ensure Congress doesn&rsquo;t slip behind in its UN payments next year.&nbsp;<br /><br />Now is your chance to tell your Senator to support full funding of the President&rsquo;s request for $2.26 billion for UN peacekeeping and $1.8 billion for international organizations. This amounts to $4.06 billion of the $53.9 billion allocated for international affairs in the 2010 budget.<br /><br />These funds will support life-saving responses to humanitarian crises like that now under way in Pakistan, where UN agencies are providing shelter, food, and medical supplies to over 2 million refugees who have fled violence in the Swat Valley region. American dollars will also enable peacekeeping missions that the U.S. has used its Security Council vote to create in some of the world&rsquo;s most precarious places, including Haiti, Lebanon, and Sudan.<br /><br />We expect Senate appropriators to have finalized negotiations about next year&rsquo;s budget as early as this Friday, so please <a href="https://secure.globalproblems-globalsolutions.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=198">act now</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for all that you do in support of reengaging U.S. leadership through multilateral institutions.<br /><br />Sincerely,&nbsp;<br />The Better World Campaign team<br />http://www.betterworldcampaign.org/<br />

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