A/RES/58/5 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 17 November 2003 Fifty-eighth session Agenda item 23 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 3 November 2003 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/58/L.2 and Add.1)] 58/5. Sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace The General Assembly, Recalling its decision to include in its agenda an item entitled “Sport for peace and development” and a sub-item thereof entitled “International Year of Sport and Physical Education”, 1 Considering the role of sport and physical education as a means to promote education, health, development and peace, Acknowledging the major role of the United Nations, its funds and programmes and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and other specialized agencies, in promoting human development through sport and physical education, through its country programmes, Taking note of the communiqué issued by the round table of ministers responsible for sports and physical education, held in Paris on 9 and 10 January 2003, in which they expressed their commitment to ensuring that the role of physical education and sport is fully recognized and developed, Recalling the Convention on the Rights of the Child 2 and the outcome document of the special session of the General Assembly on children entitled “A world fit for children” 3 stressing that education shall be directed to the development of children’s personality, talents and mental and physical abilities to their fullest potential, Recalling also the International Charter of Physical Education and Sport of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 4 and the Dakar Framework for Action adopted at the World Education Forum in April 2000, 5 as _______________ 1 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth Session, Plenary Meetings, 2nd meeting (A/58/PV.2), and corrigendum. 2 Resolution 44/25, annex. 3 Resolution S-27/2, annex. 4 See United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference, Twentieth Session, Paris, 24 October–28 November 1978, vol. 1: Resolutions. 5 Ibid., Final Report of the World Education Forum, Dakar, Senegal, 26–28 April 2000, Paris, 2000. 03 45321