DEC M 2300 Jl Ambassador Monteiro, Ladies and Gentlemen

THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

REMARKS AT CEREMONY COMMEMORATING SCHUMAN DAY

New York, 9 May 2000 I g D Ms. (Simone) Veil, Commissioner Vitorino, DEC M 2300 jl Ambassador Monteiro, Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am pleased to join you to celebrate the vision and achievement of Robert Schuman. On this day fifty years ago, Schuman laid the foundation for the idea for a European Union - an idea which today has become a proud reality. Europe today is at peace and prosperous as never before in its history.

It is fulfilling Schuman's dream of creating a continent characterized not by conflict or competition, but by friendly relations and a unity of purpose. Europe today owes a tremendous debt to Robert Schuman.

But so, I believe, does the rest of the world. Schuman proved to other continents and regions that even after the most bloody and most destructive war in history, former enemies could set aside the past, and work together for a future of peace and prosperity.

It is an example that is well worth heeding in many parts of the world today, including in Southeastern Europe - where conflict still persists, and where too many people believe that "ancient hatreds" are forever. The fact is: they are not. They can be overcome - through a mutual recognition of the common interest in peace; through joint efforts to build a free and common market; and through the promotion of tolerance and understanding of other cultures and beliefs.

Of course, no political model can be simply transplanted from one part of the world to another. Each region has its own traditions and its own challenges. Each must find its own solutions. But every region can build on the values of cooperation, tolerance and good governance on which the European Union is founded. Every region, if it devotes the necessary will, patience and hard work, can attain the benefits of higher standards of living and education, and of democratic systems under the rule of law.

The decisive innovation of post-war Europe has been the integration of separate nations within a single economic space, under a framework of shared law, inspired by shared democratic values. This has been achieved by a sustained effort of political vision and will.

But let me suggest today that Europe's work is not done - not yet; not as long as the countries to its south and east remain mired in economic and political stagnation. It is to Europe's credit that it has sought to expand the circle of peace and prosperity, by holding out the prospect of membership in the European Union. This has given its neighbors the courage and self-confidence to reform their economies. And it has given them a strong incentive to build democratic institutions, with entrenched respect for human and civil rights. The desire to achieve "European" standards has been a strong force for democracy.

What I wish to suggest today is that these standards are universal, not only European, - and that the United Nations will continue to seek to make them a reality in every part of the world.

Our cooperation in Kosovo is but one example of the potential for our joint efforts to help a people, and a region, follow in the footsteps of Schuman's Europe, and create lasting peace and stability.

Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,

The United Nations can play its full part in the world only if Europe plays its full part in the United Nations. Already the European Union, taken as a whole, is by far the largest single contributor to the United Nations budget. Two of its members are permanent members of the Security Council. Europe exerts great influence at the United Nations when its members not only speak with a single voice but also concert their actions to achieve a common purpose.

You have made our union of nations stronger, but I believe you can make it stronger still. I am closely following the EU's efforts to forge a Common Foreign and Security Policy, and look forward to many more instances where the EU will act with and through the United Nations, in the cause not only of peace in Europe but of peace and prosperity worldwide.

Thank you. Note to the Secretary-General

Schuman Day - 9 May

The Presidency and Commission of the EU are celebrating Schuman Day on 9 May, and are organising a Commemorative Session at the UN. Ambassador Monteiro of Portugal has written that the EU would very much appreciate your presence at the event, and would like you to open the session with a statement of approximately 10 minutes.

Your statement would be followed by additional statements of 10 minutes each by Ms. Simone Weil, former President of the European Parliament, and Mr. Antonio Vitorino, Commissioner responsible for Justice and Home Affairs. The event is frf. scheduled for the afternoon of 9 May, with the starting time scheduled according to your convenience. In its entirety, the event should take approximately 30 minutes.

A copy of your schedule for 9 May is attached, and there do not appear to be any activities scheduled^wrncrTwould confficTwith the above request. Also attached is some highlighted background information on Schuman day.

May I have your guidance, please?

Thank you.

Elisabeth Lindenmayer 17 March 2000

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Monday. 8 May

Dinner - Award evening honouring Elisabeth Kasser (with Mrs. Annan) (Russian Tea Room) (with Mrs. Annan)

Tuesday. 9 May

Lunch for Members of the Investments Committee (residence as per EL)

Wednesday, 10 May

Dinner by Amb. Dahlgren in honour of SG and Mrs. Annan

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New York, 13 March, 2000

Following our telephone conversation today, I would like to confirm that the Presidency and the Commission of the European Union are celebrating Schuman Day on May 9th and are organizing a Commemorative Session to be held at the United Nations. We already count with the presence of Ms. Simone Weil, former President of the European Parliament,and Commissioner responsible for Justice and Home Affairs Antonio Vitorino and are also trying to get a well know American personality to participate.

The Presidency and the Commission of the European Union would very much appreciate the Secretary-General's presence and to hear his views on this important matter. The Session is to be held in the afternoon, starting at a time that would be scheduled according to the Secretary-General's convenience.

Antonio Monteiro Ambassador Permanent Representative of Portugal to the United Nations

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EUROPEAN COMMUNITY

PRESS RELEASE

May 8, 1990

EC MARKS SCHtlMAJf DAY

On May 9,1950, Robert Schuman, at chat time Foreign Minister of France, issued a historic declaration which laid the foundations of today's European Community. In that declaration in the Saile dTHorloge in Paris, only five years after the end of World War n, Schuman suggested that France and Germany pool their coal and steel resources. His idea, supported by Jean Monnet, who first floated the idea of a United States of Europe, was that by creating joint control of the sinews of war the former enemies would reduce the threat of conflict between them. Today, the European Coal and Steel Community, which was formed by France, Germany, Italy and the three Benelux countries in 1952, has grown into the European Community of 12 States. A repeat of the 1914-1918 and the 1939-45 wars in Europe has now become unthinkable. To mark the fortieth anniversary of die Schuman Declaration, the Community's three major institutions have issued a joint declaration. It conies at a time when the Community is well on the way to economic integration through its 1992 program and is poised to extend the cooperation between its 12 member states through the creation of an economic and A monetary union, as well as through closer political uuion. The text of the joint declaration is attached.

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of the Commission the European Communities the United Nations

SCHUKAN DAY

JOINT DECLARATION BY THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION AND THE BUREAU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TO HARK THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SCHUMAN DECLARATION" Brussels, 8 May 1990

Forty years ago the Schuman Declaration paved the way for the Treaty of Paris, whose signatories within a few months, laid the foundations for institutions that were "to give direction to a destiny henceforward shared". The immediate aim of the Declaration of 9 May 1950 was to underpin Franco-German reconciliation by pooling their production, and that of other European countries, in two limited but at the time strategically important industries - coal and steel. However, Robert Schuiuan and Jean Mon.net also had a longer-term political objective in ftirid - the gradual evolution of the. European Community, by concrete achievements, from economic integration to political union. After forty years of pooled, sovereignty between six and later twelve countries, the Coianursity has fulfilled the aspirations of the Declaration's authors: it has become an econonic success for its inhabitants, a focal point for Europe and a force for peace in the world at large. The bonds of solidarity beween the Member States and the peoples of the Community have grown strong enough for them to be able to cope today with the sudden overthrow of the structures inherited from the war. As in 1950, the answer to the challenges and hopes arising from these recent revolutionary changes lias in "an organized and living Europe". In 1990 the Community is well placed to begin a new stage of its journey towards unity. No doubt it will look once again to the Schuman Declaration in search of the principles it needs to further European integration within the framework of common institutions which have already proved their worth but; which need to be reinforced in order to meet the challeng&s of the decade ahead of us.

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Declaration of 9 May 1950

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World peawcannot be safeguarded without the making of creative efforts proportionate to the dangers Which threaten it. The contribution which an organized and living Europe can bring to civilization is indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. In taking upon herself for more than 20 years the role of champion of a uniwd Europe, Fran« has always had as her essential aim the service of peace. A united Europe was not achieved and we had war, Europe will not be made- all at ones, or according to a single plan, It will be built through concrete achieve tnents which first create a defacto solidarity. The coming together of the nations of Europe requires the elimination of the age-old opposition of France and Ger- many. Any action ta&n must in the first place concern these two countries. With this aim in vie*; the French Government proposes thatacdoa be taken immediately on one limited but decisive point. It proposes that Franco-German production of coal and steel as a whole be placed under a common High Authority, within the framework of an organization open to the participation of the other countries of Europt The pooling of coal and steel production should immediately provide for the setting up of common foundations for economic development as a first step in the federation of Europe, and will change the destinies of those regions which have long been dexited to the manufacture of monitions of war, of which they have been the most constant victims. The solidarity in production thus established will make it plain that any war between France and Germany becomes not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible. The setting up of tMs powerful productive unit, open to all countries willing to take part and bound ultimately to provide all the member countries with the basic elements of in- dustrial production on the sasw terms, will lay a true foundation for their economic unification. This production wilj be offered to the world as a whole without distinction or exception, with the aim of contributing to raising Jiving standards and to promoting peaceful achievements, 17rMflR-20e0 16=53 PORTUGAL UN MISSION fiTE 9633511 P.04/E7

In this way, there mil be realized simply and speedily that fusion of interests which is indispensable to the establishment of a common economic system; it may be the leaven from which may grow a wider and deeper community between countries long opposd to one another by sanguinary divisions.

By pooling basic production and by instituting a new High Authority, whose deoaocs will bind France, Germany and other member countries, this proposal will lead to the realization of the first concrete foundation of a European federation indispensable to the preservation of peace,

To promote the realization of the objectives defined, the French Government is ready to open negotiations on the following bases:

The task with which this common High Authority will be charged will be that of securing in the shortest possible time the modernization of productioa and the improvement d its quality, the supply of coal and steel dn identical terms to the French and German markets, as wefl as to the markets of other member countries; the development in common of exports to Cither countries; the equalization and improvement of the living conditions of workers in these industries.

To achieve these objectives, starting from the very different conditions in which the production of member countries is at present situated, it is proposed that certain transitional measures should be instituted, such as the application of a production and investment plan, the establishment of compensating machinery for equating prices, and the creatkm of a restructuring fund to facilitate the rationalisation of production. The movement of coal and steel between, member countries will immediately be freed from all customs dutj; and wfll not be affected by differential transport rates. Conditions will gradually be created which will spontaneously provide for the more national distribution of production at the highest level of productivity.

In contrast to international cartels, which tend to impose restrictive practices on distribution and the exploitation of national markets, and 10 maintain high profits, the organization will ensure trie fusion of markets and th« expansion of production.

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The essential principles and undertakings defined above will be the subject of a treaty signed betwesn the States and submitted for the ratification of their parliaments. The negotiations required to settle details of application will be undertaken with the help of an arbitrator appointed by common agreement. He will be entrusted with the .task of see- ing that the agreements reached conform with the principles laid down, and, in the event of a deadlock, he will decide what solution is to be adopted The common High Authority entrusted with the management of the scheme will be composed of independent persons appointed by the governments, giving equal representation. A chairman "will be chosen by common agreement between the governments. The Authority's derisions will be en- forceable in France, Germany and other member countries. Appropriate measures will be provided for means of appeal against the decisions of the Authority. A representative of the United Nations will be accredited to the Authority, and will be instructed to make a public report to the Uriited Nations twice yearly, giving an account, of the working of the new organization, particularly as concerns the safeguarding of its specific objectives.

The institution of the High Authority will in no way prejudge the methods of ownership of enterprises. In the exercise of its functions, the common High Authority will take into account the powers conferred upon the International Ruhr Authority and the obligations of all kinds imposed upon. Germany, so long as these remain in force.' Kuxandra t-erascu 01/05/2000 01:03 PM

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Subject: Re: input for Schumann Day

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Subject: Re: input for Schumann Day The paragraphs proposed for inclusion in the Secretary-General's statement on Schuman Day, 9 May 2000 by the Americas and Europe Division in DP A, are e-mailed herewith as desired. We apologise for the delay.

INPUT ON IMPORTANCE OF UNITY IN EUROPE FOR SG STATEMENT ON SCHUMANN DAY - 9 MAY 2000

On this the fiftieth anniversary of the Schumann Declaration, it is most remarkable how much has been achieved in bringing to fruition the aspirations of the former Foreign Minister of France and Jean Monnet to gradually move the European Community from economic integration to political union.

The unity we see today among European countries is making the continent a force in pursuing the purposes of the United Nations Charter, particularly in its ability to play a major role in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. The creation of its regional institutions have also enhanced the positive European influence in all parts of the world as well as in the work of the United Nations.

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