A/RES/73/127
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 December 2018
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 15
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 12 December 2018
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.48 and A/73/L.48/Add.1)]
73/127.
International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the Charter of the United Nations and its purposes and principles,
and especially the commitment to settle disputes through peaceful means and the
determination to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,
Acknowledging that the approach of multilateralism and diplomacy could
reinforce the advancement of the three pillars of the United Nations, namely,
sustainable development, peace and security and human rights, which are interlinked
and mutually reinforcing, while observing respective mandates and the Charter,
Recognizing the United Nations as the most representative international
organization and the utmost expression of multilateralism, which is the main instrument
to address multifaceted and complex global challenges through collective action,
Recognizing also the urgent need to promote and strengthen multilateralism and
that the United Nations plays a central role in this regard,
Recognizing further the role of international, regional and subregional
organizations in the promotion and preservation of multilateralism and in the
facilitation of diplomacy, and noting in this regard the Movement of Non -Aligned
Countries and its political declaration of 26 September 2018, 1
Reaffirming its resolutions 53/199 of 15 December 1998 and 61/185 of
20 December 2006 on the proclamation of international years, and Economic and
Social Council resolution 1980/67 of 25 July 1980 on international years and
anniversaries, in particular paragraphs 1 to 10 of the annex thereto on the agreed
criteria for the proclamation of international years, as well as paragraphs 13 and 14,
in which it is stated that an international day or year should not be proclaimed before
the basic arrangements for its organization and financing have been made,
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