Documents/DNP2012/4: Strength, Safety & Security/4.6.6: The United Nations

4.6.6: The United Nations

Modernize the UN's infrastructure for the 21st century, to reform international bodies and strengthen national and multilateral capabilities to advance peace, security, and opportunity.

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International institutions—most prominently the United Nations—have been a centerpiece of international order since the mid-20th century. And just as American leadership was essential to forging the architecture for international cooperation after World War II, the President and the Democratic Party are committed to modernizing its infrastructure for the 21st century—working to reform international bodies and strengthen national and multilateral capabilities to advance peace, security, and opportunity. We have restored America's leadership at the UN by cooperating with our partners there when we can and respectfully disagreeing with them when we must, reversing the previous administration's disdain for the UN. The President's leadership at the UN has enabled us to make real progress on a number of top national security priorities, including getting Russia and China on board to implement the toughest UN sanctions ever on Iran and North Korea.

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  • United Nations

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