A/RES/60/9 3. Notes the elaboration of a business plan by the Working Group on Sport for Development and Peace of the United Nations Communications Group, as a common framework to foster coordination and cooperation for a more systematic and coherent use of sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace, and requests the Secretary-General to disseminate the business plan as widely as possible among Member States, the United Nations system and sport-related organizations; 4. Requests the Secretary-General: (a) To elaborate an action plan that will expand and strengthen United Nations partnerships with Governments, sport-related organizations and the private sector, on the basis, inter alia, of an assessment of progress achieved, steps taken and difficulties encountered in realizing the potential of sport as a tool for development and peace; (b) To strengthen advocacy and social mobilization, especially at the national, regional and international levels, through well-targeted communicationsbased activities, and stresses the contribution of the United Nations Sport Bulletin as well as websites in this regard; Invites Member States to provide voluntary contributions to ensure 5. adequate execution of and follow-up to the activities being implemented by the Office of Sport for Development and Peace; Invites Member States, the United Nations system, international sports 6. bodies and sport-related organizations to promote further sport and physical education, including assistance for the building and restoration of sports infrastructures, the implementation of partnership initiatives and development projects, as a contribution towards achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration,3 and the broader aims of development and peace; 7. Invites Governments and international sports bodies to assist developing countries, in particular the least developed countries and small island developing States, in their capacity-building efforts in sport and physical education, by providing financial, technical and logistic resources for the development of sports programmes; Welcomes the adoption of the International Convention against Doping in 8. Sport by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its thirty-third session, and invites Member States to consider adhering to this Convention as early as possible; Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its 9. sixty-first session on the implementation of the present resolution and on the events organized at the national, regional and international levels to celebrate the International Year in 2005, under the item entitled “Sport for peace and development”. 43rd plenary meeting 3 November 2005 3

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