Promotion of interreligious and intercultural dialogue, understanding and cooperation for peace : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2009
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SymbolA/RES/64/81
TitlePromotion of interreligious and intercultural dialogue, understanding and cooperation for peace : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
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Summary
Urges Member States, in the context of the International Year of Reconciliation, 2009, to further promote reconciliation to help to ensure durable peace and sustained development; invites the Secretary-General to organize, within existing resources, a special activity to launch the celebration of the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures, which could include the ringing of the peace bell; recognizes that the Office for Economic and Social Council Support and Coordination in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat plays a valuable role as focal point within the Secretariat on the issue, and encourages it to continue to interact and coordinate with the relevant entities of the UN system and coordinate their contribution to the intergovernmental process; requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its 65th sess. on the implementation of the present resolution and, at its 66th sess., in coordination with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to further solicit views of Member States on the possibility of proclaiming a UN decade for interreligious and intercultural dialogue and cooperation for peace, building on the information contained in the reports of the Secretary-General at the 64th and 65th sess. and the relevant initiatives to be taken in the course of 2010.
Action note2009-12-07
Vote summary
Adopted without vote, 60th plenary meeting
Meeting record
A/64/PV.60
Agenda information
A/64/251 49 Culture of peace. PEACE
Date[New York] : UN, 19 Feb. 2010
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4 p.
Notes
Issued in GAOR, 64th sess., Suppl. no. 49.