United Nations General Assembly A/RES/56/75 Distr.: General 10 January 2002 Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 23 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [without reference to a Main Committee (A/56/L.47 and Add.1)] 56/75. Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal The General Assembly, Recalling its decision to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session the item entitled “Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal” and to consider this item every two years in advance of each Summer and Winter Olympic Games, Recalling also its resolution 48/11 of 25 October 1993, which, inter alia, revived the ancient Greek tradition of ekecheiria or “Olympic Truce” with the aim of ensuring the safe passage and participation of athletes and others at the Games, Taking into account the inclusion in the United Nations Millennium Declaration 1 of an appeal for the observance of the Olympic Truce now and in the future and support for the International Olympic Committee in its efforts to promote peace and human understanding through sport and the Olympic ideal, Recognizing that the goal of the Olympic movement is to build a peaceful and better world by educating the youth of the world through sport, practised without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding, promoted by friendship, solidarity and fair play, Recognizing also the valuable contribution that the appeal launched by the International Olympic Committee for an Olympic Truce, with which the National Olympic Committees of the Member States are associated, could make towards advancing the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Noting with satisfaction the flying of the United Nations flag at all competition sites of the Olympic Games, and the joint endeavours of the International Olympic Committee and the United Nations system in fields such as development, humanitarian assistance, health promotion, education, women, the eradication of poverty, the fight against the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), drug abuse and juvenile delinquency, _______________ 1 01 48996 See resolution 55/2.