General Assembly resolution upholds the Olympic Truce

This follows the adoption connected Tuesday of a solution that calls for a cessation of hostilities starting 7 days earlier the opening of the Olympic and Paralympic Games and ending 7 days aft they conclude.

The General Assembly comprises each 193 UN Member States, with 120 voting connected the resolution.  It received 118 votes successful favour and nary against, with Russia and Syria abstaining.

Safe transition for athletes

The Paris Olympiad volition beryllium held from 26 July to 11 August.

The solution calls for observing the Olympic Truce “to guarantee the harmless passage, entree and information of athletes, officials and each different accredited persons taking portion successful the Games of the Olympiad and the Paralympic Games, and to lend done different due measures to the harmless enactment of the Games.”

It recognizes that athletics “can beryllium utilized to beforehand quality rights and fortify cosmopolitan respect for specified rights, frankincense contributing to their afloat realization.”

“The values instilled successful athletes – discipline, teamwork, the sheer volition to win and perseverance – are the precise aforesaid values that tin motivate and signifier the leaders and contributors of tomorrow,” said UN General Assembly President Dennis Francis successful connection work up of the vote.

It was delivered connected his behalf by Vice-President Peter Mohan Maithri Pieris.

Keeping the tradition

The past Greek contented of the ekecheiria, oregon Olympic Truce, was calved successful the eighth period BC and renewed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) successful 1992.

The solution has besides go a UN contented arsenic it is up for information each 2 years, successful beforehand of the Summer and Winter Olympic Games.