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UNITED
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General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/53/151
10 March 1999
Fifty-third session
Agenda item 110 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/53/625/Add.2)]
53/151. Follow-up to the United Nations Year for Tolerance
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 47/124 of 18 December 1992, 48/126 of 20 December 1993, 49/213 of 23
December 1994 and 51/95 of 12 December 1996,
Recalling also that the Charter of the United Nations affirms in its Preamble that to practise tolerance is
one of the principles to be applied to attain the ends pursued by the United Nations of preventing war and
maintaining peace,
Stressing that one of the purposes of the United Nations, as set forth in the Charter, is the achievement
of international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian
character and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all
without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion,
Bearing in mind the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1 the Vienna Declaration and Programme
of Action, adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993,2 and the International
Covenants on Human Rights,3
1
Resolution 217 A (III).
2
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
3
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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