A/RES/69/139. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2014

• Resolution Number: A/RES/69/139
• Year: 2014
• Session: 69th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/69/139

General Assembly Distr.: General

21 January 2015

Sixty-ninth session

Agenda item 14

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 15 December 2014

[without reference to a Main Committee (A/69/L.34 and Add.1)]

69/139. Follow-up to the Declaration and Programme of Action on

a Culture of Peace

The General Assembly

,

Bearing in mind

the Charter of the United Nations, including the purposes and

principles contained therein, and especially the dedication to saving succeeding

generations from the scourge of war,

Recalling

the Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and

Cultural Organization, which states that, “since wars begin in the minds of men, it is

in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed”,

Recognizing

the importance of the Declaration

1

and Programme of Action

2

on

a Culture of Peace, which serve as the universal mandate for the international

community, particularly the United Nations system, for the promotion of a culture of

peace and non-violence that benefits humanity, in particular future generations,

Recalling

its previous resolutions on a culture of peace, in particular resolution

52/15 of 20 November 1997 proclaiming 2000 the International Year for the Culture

of Peace, resolution 53/25 of 10 November 1998 proclaiming the period 2001–2010

the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children

of the World, and resolutions 56/5 of 5 November 2001, 57/6 of 4 November 2002,

58/11 of 10 November 2003, 59/143 of 15 December 2004, 60/3 of 20 October

2005, 61/45 of 4 December 2006, 62/89 of 17 December 2007, 63/113 of

5 December 2008, 64/80 of 7 December 2009, 65/11 of 23 November 2010, 66/116

of 12 December 2011, 67/106 of 17 December 2012 and 68/125 of 18 December

2013, adopted under its agenda item entitled “Culture of peace”,

Recalling also

its resolution 68/127 of 18 December 2013 on a world against

violence and violent extremism,

Reaffirming

the United Nations Millennium Declaration,

3

which calls for the

active promotion of a culture of peace,

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1 Resolution 53/243 A.

2 Resolution 53/243 B.

3 Resolution 55/2.