A/RES/74/16
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 December 2019
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 11
Sport for development and peace: building a peaceful and
better world through sport and the Olympic ideal
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 9 December 2019
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/74/L.18 and A/74/L.18/Add.1)]
74/16.
Building a peaceful and better world through sport
and the Olympic ideal
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 72/6 of 13 November 2017, in which it decided to
include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-fourth session the sub-item entitled
“Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal ”, and
recalling also its prior decision to consider the sub-item every two years, in advance
of the 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 (“Olympic Truce”) calling for a truce during
the Olympic Games to encourage a peaceful environment and ensure safe passage,
access and participation for athletes and relevant persons at the Games, thereby
mobilizing the youth of the world to the cause of peace,
Recalling further that the core concept of ekecheiria, historically, has been the
cessation of hostilities from seven days before until seven days after the Olympic
Games, which, according to the legendary oracle of Delphi, was to replace the cycl e
of conflict with a friendly athletic competition every four years,
Recognizing the valuable contribution of sport in promoting education,
sustainable development, peace, cooperation, solidarity, fairness, social inclusion and
health at the local, regional and international levels, and noting that, as declared in
the 2005 World Summit Outcome, 1 sports can contribute to an atmosphere of
tolerance and understanding among peoples and nations,
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