A/RES/77/27
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 December 2022
Seventy-seventh session
Agenda item 11
Sport for development and peace
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 1 December 2022
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/77/L.28)]
77/27.
Sport as an enabler of sustainable development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 58/5 of 3 November 2003 and 59/10 of 27 October
2004, its decision to proclaim 2005 the International Year for Sport and Physical
Education to strengthen sport as a means to promote education, health, development
and peace, and its resolutions 60/1 of 16 September 2005, 60/9 of 3 November 2005,
61/10 of 3 November 2006, 62/271 of 23 July 2008, 63/135 of 11 December 2008,
65/4 of 18 October 2010, 67/17 of 28 November 2012, 69/6 of 31 October 2014,
71/160 of 16 December 2016, 73/24 of 3 December 2018 and 75/18 of 1 December
2020,
Recalling also its resolution 67/296 of 23 August 2013, in which it proclaimed
6 April the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace,
Recalling further its resolution 76/13 of 2 December 2021 on building a
peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal, and all its previous
resolutions on this matter,
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for
the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions –
economic, social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner, and to
building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking
to address their unfinished business,
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