A/RES/76/69
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 December 2021
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 16
Culture of peace
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 9 December 2021
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/76/L.21 and A/76/L.21/Add.1)]
76/69.
Promotion of interreligious and intercultural dialogue,
understanding and cooperation for peace
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United
Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 in particular the right to
freedom of thought, conscience and religion,
Recalling its resolution 75/26 of 2 December 2020 on the promotion of
interreligious and intercultural dialogue, understanding and cooperation for peace,
and its other related resolutions,
Recalling also its resolution 53/243 of 13 September 1999 on the Declaration
and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace, which serves as a universal mandate
for the international community for the promotion of a culture of peace and
non-violence that benefits humanity, in particular future generations, and welcoming
the convening of the High-level Forum on the Culture of Peace by the President of
the General Assembly on 7 September 2021,
Recalling further that, in its resolution 67/104 of 17 December 2012, it
proclaimed the period 2013–2022 the International Decade for the Rapprochement of
Cultures and invited the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization, in that context, to be the lead agency in the United Nations system,
Encouraging, in this regard, activities aimed at promoting interreligious and
intercultural dialogue in order to enhance peace and social stability, respect for
diversity and mutual respect and to create, at the global level, and also at the regional,
national and local levels, an environment conducive to peace and mutual
understanding,
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Resolution 217 A (III).
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