A/RES/73/24 Sport as an enabler of sustainable development primary vehicle to promote positive perceptions and greater inclusion of persons with disabilities in sport and society, Recognizing also the importance of international, continental and regional sport events, such as the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, the Special Olympics World Games, the Deaflympics, the World Indigenous Games, the European Games, the Games of La Francophonie, the Pan American Games and the Parapan American Games, the All Africa Games, the Asian Games, the Pacific Games, the Asian In door and Martial Arts Games, the World Nomad Games, the Commonwealth Games and the Universiade, for promoting education, health, development, peace and solidarity among nations, Highlighting the importance of continuing to reduce barriers to participatio n in sport events, particularly for participants from developing countries, Recognizing that major international sport events should be organized in the spirit of peace, mutual understanding, friendship, tolerance and inadmissibility of discrimination of any kind and that the unifying and conciliative nature of such events should be respected, Reaffirming the importance of Member States, including those that will host such Games and other sporting events in the future, as well as relevant sport -related organizations, federations and associations, as appropriate, enhancing measures to address the risks of corruption related to such events, and in this regard welcoming the conference on safeguarding sport from corruption, held in Vienna in June 2018, Emphasizing the critical role of productive public-private partnerships for funding sport for development and peace programmes, institutional development and physical and social infrastructures, 1. Reaffirms that sport is an important enabler of sustainable development, and recognizes the growing contribution of sport to the realization of development and peace in its promotion of tolerance and respect and the contributions it makes to the empowerment of women and of young people, individuals and communit ies as well as to health, education and social inclusion objectives; 2. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General entitled “Strengthening the global framework for leveraging sport for development and peace”, 13 reviewing progress towards the implementation of the United Nations Action Plan on Sport for Development and Peace and proposing an update to the Action Plan aimed at outlining a system-wide approach to leveraging sport for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 1 and for the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals; 3. Welcomes the growing attention by the international community to exploring and leveraging the role of sport and physical activity in the attainment of development objectives and the enjoyment of human rights, and in this regard acknowledges the endorsement by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization of the Kazan Action Plan and its sport policy follow-up framework, adopted at the sixth International Conference of Ministers and Senior Officials Responsible for Physical Education and Sport, as a voluntary, overarching reference for fostering international convergence among policymakers in the fields of physical education, physical activity and sports, as well as a potential tool for aligning international and national policy in these fields, 14 and __________________ 13 14 4/7 A/73/325. See United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference, Thirty-ninth Session, Paris, 30 October–14 November 2017, vol. 1, Resolutions, sect. IV, resolution 30. 18-20837