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The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2000 as the International Year for the Culture of Peace. UNESCO is responsible for the coordination of its activities.





The Manifesto 2000 for a culture of peace and non-violence, was drafted by a group of Nobel Peace Prize, to translate the resolutions of the United Nations into everyday language and to make them relevant to people everywhere.

The Manifesto 2000 does not appeal to a higher authority, but instead it is an individual commitment and responsibility.







The Manifesto 2000 was made public in Paris on March 4th 1999, during a press conference at the Eiffel Tower and is open to signatures from the wider public throughout the world. This conference welcomed a certain number of personalities as well as 100 young committed to diffuse this message.

You are invited to join them and to become Messenger of the Manifesto 2000.







 
Nobel Peace Prize
DALAÏ LAMA
Adolfo PEREZ ESQUIVEL
Mairead CORRIGAN MAGUIRE
Rigoberta MENCHU TUM
Jose RAMOS HORTA
Mikhail Sergeyevich GORBACHEV
Joseph ROTBLAT
David TRIMBLE
Elie WIESEL
Norman BORLAUG
John HUME
Shimon PERES
Desmond TUTU
Jody WILLIAMS
Mgr Carlos Felipe XIMENES BELO
Oscar ARIAS SANCHEZ

Heads of State and government
Ibrahim BARE President of the Republic of Niger
Carlos Roberto FLORES FACUSSE President of the Republic of Honduras
Arnoldo ALEMAN LACAYO President of the Republic of Nicaragua
Andrés PASTRANA ARANGO President of the Republic of Colombia
Alpha Omar KONARE President of the Republic of Mali
Isaias AFWERKI President of Eritrea
Said MUSA Prime Minister for Belize
Marc FORNE I MOLNE Chief of the Government of the Principality of Andorra
Sam NUJOMA President of the Republic of Namibia
NORODOM SIHANOUK VARMAN King of Cambodia
Mikulas DZURINDA Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic
Islam KARIMOV President of the Republic d'Uzbekistan
Sani E. L. LAKATANI Prime Minister of Niue
Saparmyrat NIYAZOV President of Turkmenistan
Abdelaziz BOUTEFLIKA President of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
Alexander LUKASHENKO President of the Republic of Belarus
Festus G. MOGAE President of the Republic of Bostwana
Aleksander KWASNIEWSKI President of the Republic of Poland
Heydar ALIEV President of the Azerbaijani Republic
KIM Dae-Jung President of the Republic of Korea
Hugo CHAVEZ FRIAS President of the Republic of Venezuela
Vaclav HAVEL President of the Czech Republic
Percival PATTERSON Prime Minister of Jamaica
Yoweri K. MUSEVENI President of the Republic of Uganda
Edward FENECH-ADAMI Prime Minister of the Republic ofMalta
Barnabas SIBUSSIO DLAMINI Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Swaziland
Chuan LEEKPAI Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand
Khamtay SIPHANDONE President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic
Arthur Napoleon Raymond ROBINSON President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

Other personalities
Agustín CONDE BAJEN Mayor of Toledo, Spain
Manuel FRAGA IRIBARNE President of the Xunta of Galicia, Spain
Coretta SCOTT KING President of the Martin Luther King Center, United States
Adama SAMASSEKOU Minister of basic Education in Mali and Spokesman of the Government
Joseph DEISS Federal Advisor Switzerland
Gabriel GARCIA MARQUEZ Nobel Prize of Literature
Eugeny SIDOROV Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of the Russian Federation
Gail TEIXEIRA Minister for the Culture, Youth and the Sports in Guyana
Nana Konadu AGYEMAN-RAWLINGS First Lady of Ghana
Clémence Aissa BARE First Lady of Niger
Isaac KOULINGE Speaker of the Assembly of the Republic of Namibia
Jerzy KLOCZOWSKI President of the National Commission of Poland
HOUEZE HOLOU HOUEYI MIGAN XIV Republic of Benin
Carmen RAMIA Director of the Newspaper El Nacional Venezuela
Mario MICHEL Minister of Education of Saint Lucia
Mirie RUSHANI Minister of Science of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Dimitar DIMITOV President of the Macedonian National Commission for UNESCO



 

Poul Nyrup RASMUSSEN Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Denmark
José María AZNAR President of the Government of the Kingdom of Spain
Jacques CHIRAC President of the French Republic
Oscar Luigi SCALFARO President of the Republic Italian
Nursultan NAZARBAYEV President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Petru LUCINSCHI President of the Republic of Moldova
Kjell Magne BONDEVIK Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Norway
Jorge SAMPAIO President of the Portuguese Republic
Evgeni PRIMAKOV Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
Nelson MANDELA President of the Republic of South Africa
Leonid KOUTCHMA President of Ukraine
Tony BLAIR Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Mohammed Ahmed RASHEED Minister for Education of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Emile LAHOUD President of the Lebanese Republic
MOHAMMED VI King of Morocco
Jiang ZEMIN President of the People's Republic of China
Seyyed Mohammed KHATAMI President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Keizo OBUCHI Prime Minister of Japan
Askar AKAEV President of the Kyrghyz Republic
Jenny SHIPLEY Prime Minister of New Zealand
Tara DE MEL Adviser to the President of Sri Lanka
Phan Van KHAI Prime Minister of Socialist Republic of Viet Nam
Fernando Henrique CARDOSO President of the Federative Republic of Brazil
Dora BOYD DE PEREZ BALLADARES First Lady of the Republic of Panama
Bakili MULUZI President of the Republic of Malawi
Ehud BARAK Prime Minister of the State of Israel
Assoumani AZALI President of the Islamic Federal Republic of Comoros



For any further information: iycp@unesco.org

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