A/RES/68/125
United Nations
Distr.: General
19 February 2014
General Assembly
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 15
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2013
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/68/L.28 and Add.1)]
68/125. Follow-up to the Declaration and Programme of Action
on a Culture of Peace
The General Assembly,
Bearing in mind the Charter of the United Nations, including the purposes and
principles contained therein, and especially the dedication to saving succeeding
generations from the scourge of war,
Recalling the Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization, which states that, “since wars begin in the minds of men, it is
in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed”,
Recognizing the importance of the Declaration 1 and Programme of Action 2 on
a Culture of Peace, which serve as the universal mandate for the international
community, particularly the United Nations system, for the promotion of a culture of
peace and non-violence that benefits humanity, in particular future generations,
Recalling its previous resolutions on a culture of peace, in particular resolution
52/15 of 20 November 1997 proclaiming 2000 the International Year for the Culture
of Peace, resolution 53/25 of 10 November 1998 proclaiming the period 2001–2010
the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children
of the World, and resolutions 56/5 of 5 November 2001, 57/6 of 4 November 2002,
58/11 of 10 November 2003, 59/143 of 15 December 2004, 60/3 of 20 October
2005, 61/45 of 4 December 2006, 62/89 of 17 December 2007, 63/113 of
5 December 2008, 64/80 of 7 December 2009, 65/11 of 23 November 2010, 66/116
of 12 December 2011 and 67/106 of 17 December 2012, adopted under its agenda
item entitled “Culture of peace”,
Reaffirming the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 3 which calls for the
active promotion of a culture of peace,
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1
Resolution 53/243 A.
Resolution 53/243 B.
3
Resolution 55/2.
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