A/RES/58/6 Recognizing also the valuable contribution that the appeal launched by the International Olympic Committee for an Olympic Truce, with which the National Olympic Committees of the Member States are associated, could make towards advancing the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Noting with satisfaction the flying of the United Nations flag at all competition sites of the Olympic Games, and the joint endeavours of the International Olympic Committee and the United Nations system in fields such as poverty alleviation, human and economic development, humanitarian assistance, education, health promotion, gender equality, environmental protection and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) prevention, Welcoming the establishment by the International Olympic Committee of an International Olympic Truce Foundation and an International Olympic Truce Centre to promote further the ideals of peace and understanding through sport, on whose Board the President in office of the General Assembly sits and the SecretaryGeneral and the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization are represented, Welcoming also the individual support of world personalities for the promotion of the Olympic Truce, 1. Urges Member States to observe, within the framework of the Charter of the United Nations, the Olympic Truce, individually and collectively, during the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, to be held in Athens; Welcomes the decision of the International Olympic Committee to 2. mobilize all international sports organizations and the National Olympic Committees of the Member States to undertake concrete actions at the local, national, regional and world levels to promote and strengthen a culture of peace based on the spirit of the Olympic Truce; Calls upon all Member States to cooperate with the International 3. Olympic Committee in its efforts to use the Olympic Truce as an instrument to promote peace, dialogue and reconciliation in areas of conflict during and beyond the Olympic Games period; Welcomes the increased implementation of projects for development 4. through sport, and encourages Member States and all concerned agencies and programmes of the United Nations system to strengthen their work in this field, in cooperation with the International Olympic Committee; Requests the Secretary-General to promote the observance of the 5. Olympic Truce among Member States and support for human development initiatives through sport, and to cooperate with the International Olympic Committee in the realization of these objectives; Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixtieth session the 6. sub-item entitled “Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic Ideal” and to consider this sub-item before the XX Olympic Winter Games. 52nd plenary meeting 3 November 2003 2