International Year for the Culture of Peace, 2000

Requests the General Assembly to adopt a programme of action for the year 2000; stresses that an international year for the culture of peace at the turn of the millennium would provide the opportunity to boost the efforts of the international community to establish and promote an everlasting culture of peace; recognizes, therefore, that the promotion of a culture of peace should be high-profile theme in the several mobilizing events and evaluations being planned through the year 2000, at the national, regional and international levels.

Adopted without vote, 46th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 1998, New York, 22 Jan. and 3 and 6 Feb. 1998; resumed organizational session for 1998, New York, 7 May 1998; substantive session of 1998, New York, 6-31 July and 5 Aug. 1998; resumed substantive session of 1998, New York, 16 Dec. 1998 - E/1998/98 - p. 65 - (ESCOR, 1998, Suppl. no. 1).