UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The president of the Common Meeting appealed to the U.N.’s 193 member nations on Thursday to take “concrete actions” to advertise peace throughout subsequent month’s Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Abdulla Shahid additionally referred to as on all opponents in conflicts around the globe “to boldly conform to true mutual cease-fires” through the Olympic truce referred to as for by the Common Meeting.
The meeting took observe of Shahid’s “solemn enchantment” with a bang of his gavel.
On Dec. 2, the meeting adopted a decision by consensus recalling the traditional Greek custom of ekecheiria, calling for an “Olympic Truce,” to encourage a peaceable setting and guarantee protected passage and participation of athletes within the video games, “thereby mobilizing the youth of the world to the reason for peace.”
The decision urged member state “to watch the Olympic Truce, individually and collectively” from the week earlier than the beginning of the twenty fourth winter Olympic video games in Beijing till the week after the Paralympics. The Olympics run from Feb. 4-20 adopted by the Paralympics from March 4-13.
Shahid’s enchantment urges all international locations “to undertake concrete actions on the native, nationwide, regional and world ranges to advertise and strengthen a tradition of peace and concord primarily based on the spirit of the Olympic Truce.”
It says the United Nations and the Worldwide Olympic Committee have strengthened their cooperation and help and the IOC has determined to fly the U.N. flag within the Olympic stadium and the Olympic villages as an expression of the 2 organizations’ frequent targets -- “to advertise peace, mutual understanding and goodwill amongst nations and peoples.”.
The IOC welcomed Shahid’s enchantment and referred to as it “one other demonstration of the help for the political neutrality of the Olympic Video games and the Worldwide Olympic Committee.”