A
UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/29
2 February 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 21
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/54/L.30 and Add.1)]
54/29. University for Peace
The General Assembly,
Recalling that in its resolution 34/111 of 14 December 1979 it approved the idea of establishing the
University for Peace as a specialized international centre for postgraduate studies, research and the
dissemination of knowledge specifically aimed at training and education for peace and its universal
promotion within the United Nations system,
Recalling also that in its resolution 35/55 of 5 December 1980 it approved the establishment of the
University for Peace in conformity with the International Agreement for the Establishment of the
University for Peace,1
Recalling further its resolutions 45/8 of 24 October 1990, 46/11 of 24 October 1991 and 48/9 of
25 October 1993,
Recalling that in its resolution 46/11 it decided to include in the agenda of its forty-eighth session
and biennially thereafter an item entitled “University for Peace”,
Recalling also its resolution 50/41 of 8 December 1995, in which it decided to request the SecretaryGeneral to consider ways of strengthening cooperation between the United Nations and the University
for Peace and to submit a report thereon to the General Assembly at its fifty-second session,
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See resolution 35/55, annex.
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