UN passes Olympic Truce Resolution unanimously

ISLAMABAD - The Olympic Truce Resolution for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games received world-wide support from the UN General Assembly on Tuesday and is now the resolution which has attracted the most co-sponsors in the history of the United Nations. The Truce Resolution was formally submitted to the General Assembly of the UN by British Olympic champion and Chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Sebastian Coe, on behalf of the UK. Henry Bellingham, Parliamentary Undersecretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office: "I'm delighted that the Resolution has been co-sponsored by every single one of the United Nation's 193 member states. This astonishing level of agreement shows that the Olympic Truce is more relevant to more countries than ever before. "For many people in Britain the idea of truce and sport is epitomized by the grainy black and white pictures of British and German soldiers playing football in the no man's land of Flanders during World War One. The United Nations was born from the aftermath of conflict and today the countries of the United Nations have joined together to recognize the hope for peace at the heart of the Olympic idea."

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