PRST/28/2 Seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War

GE.15-06890 (E)

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Human Rights Council Twenty-eighth session

Agenda item 1

Organizational and procedural matters

Statement by the President

PRST 28/2. Seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War

At the 55th meeting, held on 26 March 2015, the President of the Human Rights

Council made the following statement:

“The Human Rights Council:

1. Recalls that 2015 marks the seventieth anniversary of the end of the

Second World War, a war that brought untold sorrow to humankind, particularly in

Europe, Asia, Africa, the Pacific and other parts of the world;

2. Pays tribute to all victims of the Second World War, including the

victims of the Holocaust, of war crimes and crimes against humanity;

3. Stresses that this historic event established the conditions for the

creation of the United Nations, designed to save succeeding generations from the

scourge of war and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights and dignity and the

worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations

large and small;

4. Calls upon the States Members of the United Nations to unite their

efforts in dealing with the challenges and threats to international peace and security,

with the United Nations playing a central role, and to refrain in their international

relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political

independence of any State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of

the United Nations, and to settle all disputes by peaceful means in conformity with

the Charter of the United Nations;

5. Underlines the progress made since the end of the Second World War

in overcoming its legacy and in promoting reconciliation, international and regional

cooperation and democratic values, human rights and fundamental freedoms, in

particular through the United Nations, and the establishment of regional and

subregional and other appropriate frameworks.”