78/325. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2024

• Year: 2024
• Resolution Number: 78/325
• Date: 11 September 2024
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation
• Session: 78e

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/RES /78/ 325

General Assembly

Distr. : Genera l

11 Se ptember 2024

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Seventy -eighth ses sion

Agen da item 11

Sport f or developme nt and peace : building a peaceful an d

better w orld through sport and th e Olympic i deal

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

on 6 September 2024

[witho ut reference to a Ma in Commi ttee (A/7 8/L.107)]

78/325. United Nations Gam es

The General Assembly ,

Reca llin g its resolu tions 58/5 of 3 Novem ber 2003 and 59/10 of 27 Octo ber

2004 , it s d ecision to pro claim 2005 th e I nternati onal Yea r fo r Sport and Phys ical

Educ ation t o streng then sp ort as a mean s to pr omote e ducation , healt h, deve lopment

and p eace, an d its re solution s 60/1 of 16 S eptember 2005, 60/9 of 3 Novem ber 2005 ,

61/1 0 of 3 No vember 2006, 62/2 71 of 23 July 2008, 63/135 of 11 Dec ember 2008,

65/4 of 18 Octo ber 2010, 67/1 7 of 28 Nov ember 2012 , 6 9/6 of 3 1 O ctober 2014 ,

71/1 60 of 16 Decembe r 2016, 73/24 o f 3 Dece mber 201 8, 75/18 of 1 De cember 2 020

and 77/27 of 1 Dece mber 20 22,

Reco gniz ing that sports, the art s and phy sical ac tivity h ave the p ower to change

perc eptions, pr ejudice s and behav iours, as we ll as to inspi re people, b reak down ra cial

and politi cal b arriers, comb at di scrimina tion and d efuse conflic t as refle cted i n the

poli tical de claratio n adopt ed at th e Nelson Mandel a Peace Summit in 2018 ,

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Reco gniz ing a lso th e v aluable co ntributi on of sport in pro moting edu cation,

sust ainable de velopme nt, peac e, cooper ation, sol idarity, fa irness, so cial incl usion and

healt h at the local, regiona l and inter national leve ls, an d noti ng tha t, as decla red in

the 2005 World S ummit Outc ome,

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sp orts c an con tribute to an atmos phere of

toler ance an d unders tanding among peoples and nati ons,

Reco gnizing further that s port, in cluding sport f or perso ns with disabil ities an d

perso ns li ving w ith ra re dis eases, has an imp ortant role to pl ay in the promotio n of

peac e a nd deve lopment , p hysical and men tal heal th, gend er equa lity, the

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Reso lution 73/1.

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Resol ution 6 0/1.