SAMPLE LETTER TO THE EDITOR ON UN REFORM

Below is a sample LTE in response to the U.S. reticence to continue the 60-year partnership with the United Nations. Submit it to your local newspaper's editorial board today.

1. Dear Editor
RE: UN Reform

In today’s interdependent world, America needs to work with our friends and allies to strengthen and revitalize the United Nations. For 60 years, our nation has helped shape the U.N. and we have a tremendous opportunity – and responsibility – to reform the world body in order to address the global problems of the 21st Century; problems no one nation, not even the United States, can solve alone.

U.S. leadership and partnership with the U.N. is needed in order to effectively address genocide in Darfur, nuclear proliferation, global human rights and an array of other issues that affect all of us. We as a nation can not abandon our historic 60 year partnership with the U.N. at this time. If we truly want a better and safer world for our children and grandchildren, we must continue to be global leaders in our policies and at the U.N.

America has much to gain from a modernized U.N. that began last fall, but only if it is willing to be a team player. Some of the key provisions on the table at the U.N. – spreading democracy, ensuring effective peacekeeping and promoting human rights – reflect fundamental American interests. If we respect the priorities and interests of others, it is more likely that they will respect ours.

President Bush should recognize that the U.N. is a critical foreign policy partner for the U.S. and he should work to strengthen the world body so that it can play an even more effective role in an era of global interdependence.

Sincerely,

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