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More than quintuple the number of incorporated National Assemblies - twenty-one in America, thirteen in Europe, twelve in Asia, three in Africa, one in Australasia. The establishment of six national Baha'i Publishing Trusts - two in America, two in Asia, one in Africa, one in Europe. (43:2) The participation of the women of Persia in the membership of national and local Assemblies. Establishment of seven Israel branches of National Spiritual Assemblies - two from Europe, two from Asia, one each from America, Africa and Australia. The establishment of a national Baha'i printing press in Tihran. (43:3) Reinforcement of the ties binding the Baha'i World Community to the United Nations. Inclusion, circumstances permitting, of eleven Republics comprised within Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and two European Soviet-controlled States within the orbit of the Administrative Order of the Faith. Convocation of a World Baha'i Congress in the vicinity of the Garden of Ridvan, Baghdad, third holiest city of Baha'i world, on the occasion of the world-wide celebrations of the Most Great Jubilee, commemorating the Centenary of the Ascension of Baha'u'llah to the Throne of His Sovereignty. (43:4) Current Baha'i history must henceforth, as second decade of second Baha'i century opens, move rapidly and majestically as it has never moved before since the inception of the Faith over a century ago. Earthly symbols of Baha'u'llah's unearthly Sovereignty must needs, ere the decade separating the two memorable Jubilees draws to a close, be raised as far north as Franklin beyond the Arctic Circle and as far south as the Falkland Islands, marking the southern extremity of the western hemisphere, amidst the remote, lonely, inhospitable islands of the archipelagos of the South Pacific, the Indian and Atlantic oceans, the mountain fastnesses of Tibet, the jungles of Africa, the deserts of Arabia, the steppes of Russia, the Indian Reservations of North America, the wastelands of Siberia and Mongolia, amongst the Eskimos of Greenland and Alaska, the Negroes of Africa, Buddhist strongholds in the heart of Asia, amongst Lapps of Finland, the Polynesians of the South Sea Islands, Negritos of the archipelagos of the South Pacific Ocean.
(43:5)
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