Support for the U.S. - Colombia Free Trade Agreement supports the speedy negotiation and passage of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, affirms to the U.S. Congress its strongest endorsement of such an agreement, and calls for copies of the resolution to be provided to the appropriate officials in the Administration and the Congress.

       Support for Measures to Address World Food Shortages recognizes the global food emergency faced by the people of this planet and calls upon the U.S. government, governments of other wealthy nations and development agencies to increase financial aid, recognizes that coordinated and collective international action, led by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, is imperative to prevent the emergence of a larger crisis, and calls upon the U.S. Congress and the Administration to recognize and respond to this global emergency by restoring its support for a global research network, and by increasing U.S. support for other international food programs that address this crisis

       Support for the Elimination of All Nuclear Weapons by the Year 2020 encourages its members to participate in the delegation and activities being organized by Mayors for Peace at the third NPT Review Conference Preparatory Committee Meeting in New York in May 2009; encourages its members to sign the Cities Appeal being circulated in support of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol and to encourage other elected officials in their cities to do likewise; recommends that the United States Government urgently consider the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol as a direct means of fulfilling the promise of the NPT by the year 2020, thereby meeting the obligation found by the International Court of Justice in 1996 “to conclude negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects under strict and effective international control”; and agrees that the U.S. Conference of Mayors will take up this matter at the 2009 June Conference of Mayors in Providence, Rhode Island.

       Civil and Human Rights for the People of Venezuela in solidarity with the democratic aspirations of the people of Venezuela, unequivocally condemns the restriction of political rights by the administrative actions of a government agency that does not guarantee a process concordant with minimum judicial guarantees established by the Venezuelan Constitution and the international treaties to which it is a signatory, including the American Convention on Human Rights; condemns the deliberate subjugation of the Venezuelan Constitution brought about by the Venezuela government’s disregard and dismissal of separated executive and judicial branches of government in Venezuela; unequivocally condemns the summary and arbitrary disqualification without due juridical process of otherwise eligible candidates for election and reelection for the narrow political ends of the Venezuelan executive branch, and calls for this policy resolution to be presented to the United States House of Representatives’ International Affairs Committee, the United States Senate’ Foreign Relations Committee, the United States Department of State and that representations be made to the official representatives of the Government of Venezuela in the United States.

U.S. Conference of Mayors: International Missions