United Nations
A/RES/71/160
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 January 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 11
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2016
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/71/L.38 and Add.1)]
71/160. Sport as a means to promote education, health,
development and peace
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 58/5 of 3 November 2003 and 59/10 of 27 October
2004, its decision to proclaim 2005 the International Year for Sport and Physical
Education to strengthen sport as a means to promote education, health, development
and peace, and its resolutions 60/1 of 16 September 2005, 60/9 of 3 November
2005, 61/10 of 3 November 2006, 62/271 of 23 July 2008, 63/135 of 11 December
2008, 65/4 of 18 October 2010, 67/17 of 28 November 2012 and 69/6 of
31 October 2014,
Recalling also its resolution 67/296 of 23 August 2013, in which it proclaimed
6 April the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace,
Recalling further its resolution 70/4 of 26 October 2015 on building a peaceful
and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal, and all of its previous
resolutions on this matter,
Recognizing the contribution of sport to the realization of the Millennium
Development Goals, as declared in its resolutions 60/1 of 16 September 2005 and
65/1 of 22 September 2010,
Recalling that, in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 1 inter alia,
sport is recognized as an important enabler for sustainable development,
Recognizing the need to strengthen and further coordinate efforts, including
multi-stakeholder partnerships, at all levels to maximize the potential of sport to
contribute to the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals,
including the Goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda, and national peacebuilding and
State-building priorities,
Acknowledging the major role of the United Nations system and its country
programmes as well as the role of Member States in promoting human development
through sport and physical education,
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Resolution 70/1.
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