A/RES/73/24
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 December 2018
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 12
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 3 December 2018
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.36 and A/73/L.36/Add.1)]
73/24.
Sport as an enabler of sustainable development
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, 69/6 of 31 October 2014 and
71/160 of 16 December 2016,
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 72/6 of 13 November 2017 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, 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,
Acknowledging the importance of holistic approaches to health and well-being
through regular physical activity, including sport and recreation, to prevent and
control non-communicable diseases and promote healthy lifestyles, including through
physical education, as reflected in the political declaration of the third high-level
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