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General Assembly
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GENERAL
A/RES/54/282
18 September 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 49 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/54/L.89)]
54/282. Draft United Nations Millennium Declaration
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 53/202 of 17 December 1998, 54/254 of 15 March 2000, 54/261 of 10 May
2000 and 54/281 of 11 August 2000,
Decides to refer the annexed draft United Nations Millennium Declaration to the Millennium Summit
of the United Nations, to be held from 6 to 8 September 2000, for its consideration.
100th plenary meeting
5 September 2000
ANNEX
Draft United Nations Millennium Declaration
I. VALUES AND PRINCIPLES
1. We, heads of State and Government, have gathered at United Nations Headquarters in New York from
6 to 8 September 2000, at the dawn of a new millennium, to reaffirm our faith in the Organization and its
Charter as indispensable foundations of a more peaceful, prosperous and just world.
2. We recognize that, in addition to our separate responsibilities to our individual societies, we have a
collective responsibility to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity at the global level.
As leaders we have a duty therefore to all the world’s people, especially the most vulnerable and, in
particular, the children of the world, to whom the future belongs.
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