A/RES/67/155
United Nations
Distr.: General
11 February 2013
General Assembly
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 67 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2012
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/67/455)]
67/155. Global efforts for the total elimination of racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and
the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to
the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 52/111 of 12 December 1997, in which it decided to
convene the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia
and Related Intolerance, and its resolutions 56/266 of 27 March 2002, 57/195 of
18 December 2002, 58/160 of 22 December 2003, 59/177 of 20 December 2004 and
60/144 of 16 December 2005, which guided the comprehensive follow-up to and
effective implementation of the World Conference, and in this regard underlining
the importance of their full and effective implementation,
Recalling also its resolutions 64/148 of 18 December 2009 and 65/240 of
24 December 2010, in which it, inter alia, called for the commemoration of the tenth
anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the
World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance, 1 which represented an important opportunity for the international
community to reaffirm its commitment to the eradication of racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, including by mobilizing
political will at the national, regional and international levels, with a view to
achieving concrete results,
Recalling further the political declaration of the high-level meeting of the
General Assembly to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the
Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted on 22 September 2011, 2
which reaffirmed the political commitment to the full and effective implementation
of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and the outcome document of
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See A/CONF.189/12 and Corr.1, chap. I.
Resolution 66/3.
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