A/RES/58/6
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 November 2003
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 23 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 3 November 2003
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/58/L.9 and Add.1)]
58/6.
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
include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session the item entitled
“Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic Ideal” 1 and its
decision 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 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 2 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,
Noting that the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad will take place from 13 to
29 August 2004 in Athens, in Greece, where the Olympic Games were born in
ancient times and revived in 1896, and where the tradition of the Olympic Truce was
first established,
Welcoming the initiative of the Secretary-General to establish the United
Nations Inter-agency Task Force on Sport for Development and Peace,
Recognizing the important role of sport in the implementation of the
internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the
Millennium Declaration,
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1
At its 2nd plenary meeting, on 19 September 2003, the General Assembly decided to include in the
agenda of its fifty-eighth session an item entitled “Sport for peace and development”, including a sub-item
entitled “Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal”.
2
See resolution 55/2.
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