A/RES/56/6
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
21 November 2001
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda item 25
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/56/L.3 and Add.1)]
56/6. Global Agenda for Dialogue among Civilizations
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 53/22 of 4 November 1998, 54/113 of 10 December
1999 and 55/23 of 13 November 2000 entitled “United Nations Year of Dialogue
among Civilizations”,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles embodied in the Charter of the United
Nations, which are, inter alia, to develop friendly relations among nations based on
respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, to take
other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace, and to achieve
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,
Underlining that all Members have undertaken to refrain in their international
relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political
independence of any State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of
the United Nations,
Reaffirming their commitment to the fulfilment of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights 1 as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations
and as a source of inspiration for the further promotion and protection of all human
rights and fundamental freedoms – political, social, economic, civil and cultural –
including the right to development,
Underlining that all civilizations celebrate the unity and diversity of
humankind and are enriched and have evolved through dialogue with other
civilizations and that, despite obstacles of intolerance and aggression, there has been
constructive interaction throughout history among various civilizations,
Emphasizing that a common humanity unites all civilizations and allows for
the celebration of the variegated splendour of the highest attainments of this
civilizational diversity, and reaffirming that the civilizational achievements
constitute the collective heritage of humankind,
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Resolution 217 A (III).