26-11-2001

Dear Mr. Annan,

I thought that this proposal; calling for World Harmony Day would be of interest to you due to the current situation in Afghanistan. I have developed a proposal that has the potential to become a significant milestone in the history of peace making.

"We all die but few of us really live."

This line has been attributed to a Scots national hero and you have the ability to be one of the "few" by helping us make this proposal work. It will be a great challenge for all of us to make 200220022002 a reality. All it needs is your belief that it CAN actually happen and the UN's unparalleled ability to spread the word.

Please lend your voice and the weight of your good offices to help restore harmony to our world for our sake and more importantly, for the sake of all our children - Surely one of the most fundamental tenets of the UN.

I do realize that you must truly be a very busy man therefore I thank you for your precious time.

Yours Truly,

Sunflower Chong

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ATTN : Mr. Kofi Annan

11-12-2001

Congratulations on winning the Nobel Peace Prize

Dear Mr. Annan,

On behalf of my countrymen from Singaporeans, I would like to congratulate you and the United Nations on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. I hope that you received my fax on 26 November 2001 calling for "World Harmony Day". After watching the program "Prize for Peace", we were inspired to rename it "The Nobel World Peace Silence". It is the Nobel centenary and for a man who did so much to strive for peace, naming this international action after him would be a very fitting testament to his achievement.

In recognition of the United Nation's achievements, this prize marks not the end of your contributions but on the contrary a powerful beginning. In fact, the mandate to lead the world towards peace with "The Nobel World Peace Silence" lies in your hands. Create awareness and gathering support worldwide will stop the ongoing violence and thus save humanity from itself. As mentioned in your speech, the world body should be guided in the 21st century by the idea that to save one life was "to save humanity itself". Frank Lloyd Wright said great architecture is born not made. Similarly, a great leader like you possesses great inner powers that are innate good judgment and neither be made nor trained. Mr. Johnathan Mann questioned your quiet and calm to the world. I was mesmerized with the way you answered with your cool level-headedness as a silent power connecting with the world at large. It is evident that you are born for the position you now hold.

Kofi Annan stands for truth and the truth is that your love for humanity is your driving force that makes UN so respected. You are also very adorable to all of us especially to my daughter and I.

Just this morning my daughter Greta said, "He is so cool." Then I asked, "Who is so cool?" "Mr. Kofi Annan." she answered with such expression of love on her face and then she added, "he is my idol". I replied that you are mine too, I believe the whole world agrees with us too. The only present that we can give is by working very hard to achieve world peace. When you said "we must give hope to the world" this captured our hearts and inspired us to work even harder.

In short we love you, so does the whole world. We love you for who you are and the way you carry diplomacy with USA and especially after the September 11th bombing.

Yours Truly,

Sunflower Chong

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ATTN : Mr. Kofi Annan

28-1-2002

The work we had done up until now for 200220022002

Dear Mr. Annan,

My family wishes you and your wife a very belated Happy New Year and many more to come. Thank you for the letter dated 29 Nov 2001. After reading the letter I understood that as an individual I could only appeal to the leaders of the world with the hope that they will bring my proposal to United Nations.

Our greatest gift to you is to work very hard beside United Nations to achieve World Peace. Since conception of "World Harmony Day" on 11-11-2001, my daughter and I had not stop a minute in our pursued to make 200220022002 a reality. I have been calling and sending the proposal to most of the World Leaders, Individuals, Permanent Missions to the UN and Media. We have received letters of acknowledgement and consideration from Prime Minister Helen Clark (19-12-2001), Prime Minister Tony Blair (09-01-2002) and France Foreign Ministry (09-01-2001). Although it is not a commitment but it gave us motivation to continue the struggle to bring hope to the world at large.

In your speech in November before the UN General Assembly, you stated that your second term priorities is to eradicate poverty, the struggle against Aids, the prevention of deadly conflicts and global economic sustainability. In the eloquent speech by Bill Clinton "The Struggle for the Soul of the 21st Century" is an important testament where the answer lies.

The answer is to have the wisdom and will. As questioned by Bill Clinton, these two attributes hold the key to our success only when we choose them. He was absolutely confident that we have the knowledge and the means to make the 21st century the most peaceful prosperous, interesting time in all human history. This gave us great strength and confidence to pursue in our endeavour.

We will show the world that we have the wisdom and will by seizing 200220022002, this amazing opportunity of "World Harmony Day", to commit to each other for the sake of our children's children that we will strive for a new beginning to a more peaceful world. In short it is like signing a contract to garantee peace for our children. To mark this significant day we will host it annually just like the "Terry Fox Run" to collect funds for Education. (It will be a great idea to link this program with UNICEF - The Unity Chain and 200220022002 can be - The Peace Chain) In order to eradicate poverty, the best weapon we can help to arm the third world countries is with Education. Moreover, it is a worthy cause for humanity but most importantly on this day 20 February every year, everyone around the world will be reminded of our sacred duty not to take Peace for granted. Although this is not an end-all solution, it can be a very important symbolic start towards peace.

I would like to report to you our progress up until now:

1) We had already set up the website -
www.worldharmonyday.com

2) We had email to NGO, individuals and Permanent Missions to UN to assist us in our endeavour.

3) We had sent our proposal to most of the World leaders directly.

4) We had sent our proposal to Mr. Michael Bloomberg, the Mayor of New York and propose the idea of organizing a special event on 200220022002 with the support of Sony Corporation in America and the Irish Rock Group U2.(If Sony is not interested we can approach EMI Group. In fact we had also written to them)

5) We had written to Britain Development Minister Miss Clare Short to assist us in convincing PM Tony Blair and U2 to help us in our cause.

Yours Truly,

Sunflower Chong

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