A/RES/69/6
United Nations
Distr.: General
10 November 2014
General Assembly
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 11
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 31 October 2014
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/69/L.5 and Add.1)]
69/6.
Sport as a means to promote education, health, development
and peace
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 58/5 of 3 November 2003, 59/10 of 27 October 2004,
its decision to proclaim 2005 the International Year for Sport and Physical
Education, to strengthen sport as a means to promote education, health,
development and peace, and its resolutions 60/1 of 16 September 2005, 60/9 of
3 November 2005, 61/10 of 3 November 2006, 62/271 of 23 July 2008, 63/135 of
11 December 2008, 65/4 of 18 October 2010 and 67/17 of 28 November 2012,
Recalling also its resolution 67/296 of 23 August 2013, in which it proclaimed
6 April the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace,
Recalling further its resolution 68/9 of 6 November 2013 on building a
peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal, and all its previous
resolutions on this matter,
Taking note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General entitled
“Sport for development and peace: realizing the potential”, 1 which reviews the
programmes and initiatives implemented by States Members of the United Nations,
United Nations funds and programmes, specialized agencies and other partners,
using sport as a tool for development and peace,
Acknowledging the major role of the United Nations system and its country
programmes as well as the role of Member States and their programmes abroad in
promoting human development through sport and physical education,
Recognizing the potential of sport to contribute to the achievement of the
Millennium Development Goals, noting that sport has the potential, as declared in
the 2005 World Summit Outcome, 2 to foster intercultural dialogue, peace and
development and to contribute to an atmosphere of harmony, tolerance and
understanding, and reaffirming that sport is a tool for education that can promote
cooperation, solidarity, social inclusion and cohesion, gender equality and health at
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A/69/330.
Resolution 60/1.
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