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Published on December 16, 2014
The resolution was adopted at a meeting of the UN General Assembly on Monday morning, according to message received here today.
Along with Bangladesh, as many as 97 countries were cosponsors of the resolution, the message said, adding 25 countries spoke on it.
In an instant reaction after passage of the resolution, Bangladesh's Permanent Representative to the UN, Dr AK Abdul Momen said the main slogan of the resolution was "Peace will come if intolerance and hatred of the people are reduced.
"Many European countries for the first time cosponsored the resolution," Dr Momen said.
In this year's resolution, he said, working process and code of conduct for the youths and women have been added. Like the previous years, there were also directives for the NGOs and civil society.
Dr Momen said despite political warp and woof in the country and negative publicity of mass media, the huge support of the world leaders has proved that no breach in faith in the Bangladesh's leadership has developed.
"Secondly, there is no alternative to the "Culture of Peace" for integrating all people in the national development," he said.
Dr Momen said the world leaders have pledged to work together in the Bangladesh's proposal.
"There was a support of every continent to the resolution and the support was huge in comparison to the past years," he added.
The resolution on "Culture of Peace" was first placed in the UN General Assembly in 1999. Against this backdrop, the "Decade for Culture of Peace" was observed across the world.
Since 2001, Bangladesh's Permanent Mission in the UN is placing the resolution every year and it is also being adopted unanimously each year.
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