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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/49/213
17 February 1995
Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 102
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/49/612)]
49/213.
United Nations Year for Tolerance
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 48/126 of 20 December 1993, by which it
proclaimed 1995 the United Nations Year for Tolerance,
Recalling also that the Charter of the United Nations affirms in its
preamble that to practise tolerance is one of the principles to be applied to
attain the ends pursued by the United Nations of preventing war and
maintaining peace,
Stressing that one of the purposes of the United Nations, as set forth
in the Charter, is the achievement of 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,
Mindful of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1/ and of the
International Covenants on Human Rights, 2/
Bearing in mind the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 3/
adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights at Vienna in June 1993,
1/
Resolution 217 A (III).
2/
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3/
Report of the World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna,
14-25 June 1993 (A/CONF.157/24 (Part I)), chap. III.
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