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Building a Peaceful and Better World Through Sport and the Olympic Ideal

A/RES/56/75No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 23Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal, published in 2001.

What other versions does this mandate have?

15 versions · 1997–2025
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/8
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  • 2017A/RES/72/6Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic idealCompare with previous version

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What subjects does this mandate have?

6 topics
Cooperation Between OrganizationsEducation for PeaceOlympic GamesPhysical EducationPublic OpinionSports

What does this mandate say?

6 operative paragraphs
1
Requests Member States to observe, within the framework of the Charter of the United Nations, the Olympic Truce during the XIX Olympic Winter Games to be held in Salt Lake City, United States of America, from 8 to 24 February 2002, by ensuring the safe passage and participation of athletes at the Games;
2
Welcomes the decision of the International Olympic Committee to mobilize all international sports organizations and that of the National Olympic Committees of the Member States to undertake concrete action at the local, national, regional and world levels to promote and strengthen a culture of peace based on the spirit of the Olympic Truce;
3
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;
4
Welcomes the participation of the President in office of the General Assembly and also the representatives of the Secretary-General and the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in the International Olympic Truce Foundation;
5
Urges the International Olympic Committee to devise a special programme of assistance for the development of physical education and sport for countries affected by conflicts and poverty;
6
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session the item entitled “Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal” and to consider this item before the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, to be held in Athens in 2004.

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