Invites Governments, UN, its funds and programmes, the specialized agencies, and sport-related institutions: (a) to promote the role of sport and physical education for all; (b) to include sport and physical education as a tool to contribute towards achieving the internationally agreed development goals; (c) to work collectively so that sport and physical education can present opportunities for solidarity and cooperation; (d) to recognize the contribution of sport and physical education towards economic and social development; (e) to further promote sport and physical education, on the basis of locally assessed needs, as a tool for health, education, social and cultural development; (f) to strengthen cooperation and partnership between all actors, including family, school, clubs/leagues, local communities, youth sports associations and decision makers as well as the public and private sectors, in order to ensure complementarities and to make sport and physical education available to everyone; (g) to ensure that young talents can develop their athletic potential without any threat to their safety and physical and moral integrity; invites Governments and international sports bodies to assist developing countries, in particular the least developed countries and small island developing States, in their capacity-building efforts in sport and physical education; stresses the need for all parties to cooperate closely with international sports bodies to elaborate a "code of good practice"; decides to proclaim 2005 as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education, as a means to promote education, health, development and peace, and invites Governments to organize events to underline their commitment and to seek the assistance of sports personalities in this regard.

Adopted without vote, 52nd plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 58th sess., Suppl. no. 49.