A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/53/243 6 October 1999 Fifty-third session Agenda item 31 RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [without reference to a Main Committee (A/53/L.79)] 53/243. Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace A DECLARATION ON A CULTURE OF PEACE The General Assembly, Recalling the Charter of the United Nations, including the purposes and principles embodied therein, Recalling also the Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which states that “since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed”, 99-77443 /...