A
UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/48/11
2 November 1993
Forty-eighth session
Agenda item 167
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/48/L.9/Rev.1 and Add.1)]
48/11. Observance of the Olympic Truce
The General Assembly,
Considering the appeal launched by the International Olympic Committee
for an Olympic Truce, which was endorsed by 184 Olympic committees and
presented to the Secretary-General,
Recognizing that the goal of the Olympic Movement is to build a peaceful
and better world by educating the youth of the world through sport, practised
without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires
mutual understanding, promoted by friendship, solidarity and fair play,
Recognizing also the efforts of the International Olympic Committee to
restore the ancient Greek tradition of the ekecheria, or "Olympic Truce", in
the interest of contributing to international understanding and the
maintenance of peace,
Recalling resolution CM/Res.1472 (LVIII), which supports the appeal for
an Olympic Truce, adopted by the Council of Ministers of the Organization of
African Unity at its fifty-eighth ordinary session, held at Cairo from 21 to
26 June 1993, and endorsed by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of
that organization,
Recognizing further the valuable contribution that the appeal launched
by the International Olympic Committee for an Olympic Truce could make towards
advancing the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
1.
Commends the International Olympic Committee, the International
Sports Federations and the national Olympic committees for their efforts to
mobilize the youth of the world in the cause of peace;
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