A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/54/34 18 January 2000 Fifty-fourth session Agenda item 22 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [without reference to a Main Committee (A/54/L.26 and Add.1)] 54/34. Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 52/21 of 25 November 1997, in which it decided to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session the item entitled “Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal” and to consider this item every two years in advance of each Summer and Winter Olympic Games, Recalling also its resolution 48/11 of 25 October 1993, which, inter alia, revived the ancient Greek tradition of the ekecheiria, or “Olympic Truce”, calling for all hostilities to cease during the Games, thereby mobilizing the youth of the world in the cause of peace, Taking into account resolution CM/Res. 1608 (LXII), adopted by the Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity at its sixty-second ordinary session, held at Addis Ababa from 21 to 23 June 1995,1 and endorsed by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of that organization, which supports the appeal for an Olympic Truce, 1 A/50/647, annex I. 00 23799 /...