A/RES/60/8 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 1 December 2005 Sixtieth session Agenda item 48 (a) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 3 November 2005 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/60/L.15 and Add.1)] 60/8. Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 56/75 of 11 December 2001, in which it decided to consider the item entitled “Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal” every two years in advance of each Summer and Winter Olympic Games, Recalling also its resolution 58/6 of 3 November 2003, in which it decided to include in the provisional agenda of its sixtieth session the sub-item entitled “Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal” and to consider this sub-item before the XX Olympic Winter Games, Bearing in mind its resolution 48/11 of 25 October 1993, which, inter alia, revived the ancient Greek tradition of ekecheiria or “Olympic Truce” calling for a truce during the Games that would encourage a peaceful environment and ensuring the safe passage and participation of athletes and others at the Games and, thereby, mobilizing the youth of the world to the cause of peace, Taking into account the inclusion in the United Nations Millennium Declaration 1 of an appeal for the observance of the Olympic Truce now and in the future and support for the International Olympic Committee in its efforts to promote peace and human understanding through sport and the Olympic ideal, Recalling its resolution 58/5 of 3 November 2003, in which it decided to proclaim 2005 the International Year for Sport and Physical Education, as a means to promote education, health, development and peace, 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 is based on mutual understanding, friendship, solidarity and fair play, Welcoming the joint endeavours of the International Olympic Committee and the United Nations system in fields such as human development and poverty _______________ 1 05-48802 See resolution 55/2.