Measures designed to promote among youth the ideals of peace, mutual respect and understanding between peoples

XV. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE THIRD COMMITTEE
1572. Measures designed to promote among youth the ideals of peace, mutual respect and understanding between peoples

The General Assembly, Being convinced that, in order to achieve the aim stated in the Charter of the United Nations, namely, to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, it is a matter of importance and urgency that the younger generation of today should be brought up in a spirit of peace, mutual respect and understanding between peoples, Reaffirming the principle embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Declaration of the Rights of the Child and article 14 of the draft Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights that young people should be brought up in a spirit of peace, understanding, tolerance and friendship among nations, Noting with concern that the education of youth in various parts of the world has not yet been oriented to achieve these objectives, Considering that the free and unrestricted exchange, through all means, between young people from different countries, of ideas and opinions capable of promoting the ideals of peace, mutual respect and understanding among peoples will contribute to the strengthening of international confidence and the improvement of relations between States, Recalling its resolution 1397 (XIV) of 20 November 1959, and Economic and Social Council resolution 803 (XXX) of 3 August 1960 which, inter alia, invites the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to study the possibilities of formulating principles for bilateral regional and international action regarding relations and exchanges in the fields of education and culture,

1. Recommends that Governments, non-governmental agencies and individuals should take effective action to promote among youth the ideals of peace, mutual respect and understanding between peoples;

2. Invites Governments, non-governmental agencies and individuals also to encourage the free and unrestricted exchange, through all means, between young people from different countries, of ideas and opinions capable of promoting the ideals of peace, mutual respect and understanding among peoples;

3. Invites the appropriate specialized agencies, and especially the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to consider ways of intensifying international, national and voluntary action in this field, including the possibility of formulating a draft of an international declaration setting out the basic principles concerning the promotion among youth of the ideals of peace, mutual respect and understanding between peoples, and to report on these considerations to the Economic and Social Council, if possible at its thirty-second session;

4. Requests the Economic and Social Council, in transmitting its recommendations on these reports to the General Assembly, to take into account the views expressed by Member States at the fifteenth session of the Assembly concerning the need to promote among young people the ideals of peace, mutual respect and understanding between peoples;

5. Further requests the Economic and Social Council, when transmitting its comments to the General Assembly on the next report of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization requested in Council resolution 803 (XXX), to take into account the present resolution and the discussions which have taken place thereon.

954th plenary meeting,
18 December 1960.