A/RES/63/135
United Nations
Distr.: General
3 March 2009
General Assembly
Sixty-third session
Agenda item 42
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 11 December 2008
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/63/L.51 and Add.1)]
63/135. Sport as a means to promote education, health,
development and peace
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 58/5 of 3 November 2003, 59/10 of 27 October 2004,
its decision to proclaim 2005 the International Year for Sport and Physical Education,
to strengthen sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace,
and its resolutions 60/1 of 16 September 2005, 60/9 of 3 November 2005, 61/10 of
3 November 2006, and 62/271 of 23 July 2008,
Taking note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General entitled
“Sport for development and peace: building on the foundations”, 1 which reviews the
programmes and initiatives implemented by States Members of the United Nations,
United Nations funds, programmes and specialized agencies and other partners,
using sport as a tool for development and peace,
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Recognizing the need to strengthen and further coordinate efforts at the
international level to maximize the potential of sport for contributing to the
achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals,
Acknowledging the major role of Member States and the United Nations
system in promoting human development through sport and physical education,
through its country programmes,
Acknowledging also the opportunities provided by the Games of the XXIX
Olympiad and the XIII Paralympic Games in Beijing for education, understanding,
peace, harmony and tolerance among and between peoples and civilizations, as
reflected in General Assembly resolution 62/4 of 31 October 2007 on the Olympic
Truce,
Recalling article 31 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 2 outlining a
child’s right to play and leisure, and the outcome document of the twenty-seventh
special session of the General Assembly on children, entitled “A world fit for
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