A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/52/21 8 December 1997 Fifty-second session Agenda item 24 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [without reference to a Main Committee (A/52/L.23/Rev.1 and Add.1)] 52/21. Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 50/13 of 7 November 1995, in which it decided to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-second 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 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, Recognizing 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, 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, Reaffirming that the Olympic ideal promotes international understanding, particularly among the youth of the world, through sport and culture in order to advance the harmonious development of humankind, Noting with satisfaction the increasing number of joint endeavours of the International Olympic Committee and the United Nations system, for example in the fields of development, humanitarian assistance, protection of the environment, health promotion and education, in which the United Nations Development 1 A/50/647, annex I. 97-77605 /...