A/RES/60/1
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
24 October 2005
Sixtieth session
Agenda items 46 and 120
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 September 2005
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/60/L.1)]
60/1. 2005 World Summit Outcome
The General Assembly
Adopts the following 2005 World Summit Outcome:
2005 World Summit Outcome
I.
Values and principles
1.
We, Heads of State and Government, have gathered at United Nations
Headquarters in New York from 14 to 16 September 2005.
2.
We reaffirm our faith in the United Nations and our commitment to the
purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and international law,
which are indispensable foundations of a more peaceful, prosperous and just world,
and reiterate our determination to foster strict respect for them.
3.
We reaffirm the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 1 which we adopted at
the dawn of the twenty-first century. We recognize the valuable role of the major
United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields,
including the Millennium Summit, in mobilizing the international community at the
local, national, regional and global levels and in guiding the work of the United
Nations.
4.
We reaffirm that our common fundamental values, including freedom, equality,
solidarity, tolerance, respect for all human rights, respect for nature and shared
responsibility, are essential to international relations.
5.
We are determined to establish a just and lasting peace all over the world in
accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter. We rededicate ourselves
to support all efforts to uphold the sovereign equality of all States, respect their
territorial integrity and political independence, to refrain in our international
relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the
purposes and principles of the United Nations, to uphold resolution of disputes by
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See resolution 55/2.