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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/53/2
14 October 1998
Fifty-third session
Agenda item 85
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/53/L.5)]
53/2.
Fiftieth Anniversary of United Nations Peacekeeping
The General Assembly
Adopts the Declaration on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of United Nations Peacekeeping,
as set forth in the annex to the present resolution.
29th plenary meeting
6 October 1998
ANNEX
Declaration on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of United Nations Peacekeeping
We, the Member States of the United Nations, have gathered at this commemorative meeting of the
fifty-third session of the General Assembly to mark the fiftieth anniversary of United Nations
peacekeeping. It has been fifty years since the establishment of the first United Nations observer mission,
the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization. We pay tribute to the hundreds of thousands of men
and women who have, in the past fifty years, served under the United Nations flag in more than forty
peacekeeping operations around the world, and we honour the memory of more than 1,500 United Nations
peacekeepers who have laid down their lives in the cause of peace.
We reiterate our support for all efforts effectively to promote the safety and security of United
Nations peacekeeping personnel. We recall with pride the awarding of the 1988 Nobel Peace Prize to the
peacekeeping forces of the United Nations, and we welcome the establishment by the Security Council
of the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal as a tribute to the sacrifice of those who have lost their lives while
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