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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/51/95
28 February 1997
Fifty-first session
Agenda item 110 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/51/619/Add.2)]
51/95.
Follow-up to the United Nations Year for
Tolerance
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 47/124 of 18 December 1992, 48/126 of
20 December 1993 and 49/213 of 23 December 1994, by which it proclaimed and
supported the United Nations Year for Tolerance,
Recalling also that the Charter of the United Nations affirms in its
preamble that to practice tolerance is one of the principles to be applied to
attain the ends pursued by the United Nations of preventing war and
maintaining peace,
Stressing that one of the purposes of the United Nations, as set forth
in the Charter, is the achievement of international cooperation in solving
international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian
character and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for
fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or
religion,
Bearing in mind the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1 the Vienna
Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted by the World Conference on Human
Rights on 25 June 1993,2 and the International Covenants on Human Rights,3
1
Resolution 217 A (III).
2
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
3
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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