A/RES/55/2. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2000

• Resolution Number: A/RES/55/2
• Year: 2000
• Session: 55th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/55/2

General Assembly Distr.: General

18 September 2000

Fifty-fifth session

Agenda item 60 (b)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

[without reference to a Main Committee (A/55/L.2)]

55/2. United Nations Millennium Declaration

The General Assembly

Adopts the following Declaration:

United Nations Millennium Declaration

I. Values and principles

1. We, heads of State and Government, have gathered at United Nations

Headquarters in New York from 6 to 8 September 2000, at the dawn of a new

millennium, to reaffirm our faith in the Organization and its Charter as

indispensable foundations of a more peaceful, prosperous and just world.

2. We recognize that, in addition to our separate responsibilities to our individual

societies, we have a collective responsibility to uphold the principles of human

dignity, equality and equity at the global level. As leaders we have a duty

therefore to all the world’s people, especially the most vulnerable and, in

particular, the children of the world, to whom the future belongs.

3. We reaffirm our commitment to the purposes and principles of the Charter of

the United Nations, which have proved timeless and universal. Indeed, their

relevance and capacity to inspire have increased, as nations and peoples have

become increasingly interconnected and interdependent.

4. We are determined to establish a just and lasting peace all over the world in

accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter. We rededicate

ourselves to support all efforts to uphold the sovereign equality of all States,

respect for their territorial integrity and political independence, resolution of

disputes by peaceful means and in conformity with the principles of justice and

international law, the right to self-determination of peoples which remain

under colonial domination and foreign occupation, non-interference in the

internal affairs of States, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms,

respect for the equal rights of all without distinction as to race, sex, language

or religion and international cooperation in solving international problems of

an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character.