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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/34
18 January 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 22
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/54/L.26 and Add.1)]
54/34.
Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the
Olympic ideal
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 52/21 of 25 November 1997, in which it decided to include in the provisional
agenda of its fifty-fourth session the item entitled “Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the
Olympic ideal” and 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 the ekecheiria, or “Olympic Truce”, calling for all hostilities to cease during the Games, thereby
mobilizing the youth of the world in the cause of peace,
Taking into account resolution CM/Res. 1608 (LXII), adopted by the Council of Ministers of the
Organization of African Unity at its sixty-second ordinary session, held at Addis Ababa from 21 to 23 June
1995,1 and endorsed by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of that organization, which supports
the appeal for an Olympic Truce,
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A/50/647, annex I.
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