Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2005
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SymbolA/RES/60/8
TitleBuilding a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
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Summary
Requests the Secretary-General to promote the observance of the Olympic Truce among Member States, drawing the attention of world public opinion to the contribution such a truce would make to the promotion of international understanding, peace and goodwill, and to cooperate with the International Olympic Committee in the realization of this objective; calls upon Member States to cooperate with the International Olympic Committee and all concerned agencies and programmes of UN in their efforts to use the Olympic Truce as an instrument to promote peace, during and beyond the Olympic Games period, and to implement projects using sport as a tool for development; decides to include in the provisional agenda of its 62nd session the sub-item entitled "Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal" and to consider this sub-item before the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, to be held in Beijing in 2008.
Action note2005-11-03
Vote summary
Adopted without vote, 43rd plenary meeting
DraftA/60/L.15
Meeting record
A/60/PV.43
Agenda information
A/60/251 48a Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal. SPORTS--PEACE
Date[New York] :[...]
Description
2 p.
Notes
Issued in GAOR, 60th sess., Suppl. no. 49.