A/RES/68/126
United Nations
Distr.: General
20 February 2014
General Assembly
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 15
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2013
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/68/L.30 and Add.1)]
68/126. Promotion of interreligious and intercultural dialogue,
understanding and cooperation for peace
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United
Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 in particular the right to
freedom of thought, conscience and religion,
Recalling its resolution 67/104 of 17 December 2012 on the promotion of
interreligious and intercultural dialogue, understanding and cooperation for peace
and its other related resolutions,
Recalling also that in its resolution 67/104 the General Assembly proclaimed
the period 2013–2022 as the International Decade for the Rapprochement of
Cultures,
Encouraging, in
intercultural dialogue
diversity and mutual
regional, national and
understanding,
this regard, activities aimed at promoting interreligious and
in order to enhance peace and social stability, respect for
respect and to create, at the global level, and also at the
local levels, an environment conducive to peace and mutual
Recalling its resolution 64/14 of 10 November 2009 on the Alliance of
Civilizations, in which it welcomed efforts to promote greater understanding and
respect among people from different civilizations, cultures and religions,
Bearing in mind the valuable contribution that interreligious and intercultural
dialogue can make to an improved awareness and understanding of the common
values shared by all humankind,
Noting that interreligious and intercultural dialogue has made significant
contributions to mutual understanding, tolerance and respect, as well as to the
promotion of a culture of peace and an improvement of overall relations among
people from different cultural and religious backgrounds and among nations,
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Resolution 217 A (III).
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