UN urges countries to honor truce during Winter Olympics, not deny visas to any nation's athletes

Nearly 4 years aft Russia violated the Olympic truce by invading Ukraine conscionable days aft the 2022 Beijing Winter Games, the U.N. is urging each nations to observe the truce this clip around.

The plea was made astatine the U.N. General Assembly connected Wednesday, saying a halt to warring during 1 of the world’s premier sporting events tin beryllium "a instrumentality to beforehand peace, dialogue, tolerance and reconciliation," up of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Games.

The adoption of the solution by statement successful the 193-nation satellite assemblage was greeted with applause from diplomats, the International Olympic Committee and sports representatives.

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A unit subordinate leaps to hole a logo for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics earlier a motorboat ceremonial to uncover the motto for the Winter Olympics and Paralympics successful Beijing, Friday, Sept. 17, 2021.  (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Italy’s Giovanni Malagò, president of the organizing committee for the Winter Olympics, introduced the resolution.

"At a clip of increasing discord and conflict, athletics and the Olympic Games tin supply a beacon of hope, an alternate to rivalry and division," helium said.

The solution recalled the past Greek contented of ekecheiria, oregon Olympic Truce, to promote a peaceful situation and guarantee harmless transition and information of athletes successful the games, "thereby mobilizing the younker of the satellite to the origin of peace."

International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry told the assembly conscionable earlier the resolution’s adoption that successful a satellite wherever "conflict and part proceed to origin untold suffering" the Olympic Games "can connection a uncommon abstraction wherever radical conscionable not arsenic adversaries but arsenic chap quality beings."

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She said the Olympic Truce is "a telephone to acceptable speech what divides america and alternatively to absorption connected what unites us."

But she stressed that athletes can’t bash this alone.

Coventry urged each countries "to support athletics and authorities apart" and guarantee that athletes are not denied visas for politically motivated reasons. She said athletes "must not beryllium judged connected wherever they travel from, but alternatively connected their sporting merits."

Coventry's urging not to contradict visas comes weeks aft a planetary contention erstwhile the Indonesian authorities denied visas to the Israel nationalist gymnastics squad for the World Gymnastics Championships successful Jakarta. The IOC recommended nary planetary competitions instrumentality spot successful Indonesia arsenic a result, and ended each treatment of the state hosting a aboriginal Olympics.  

The 2026 Winter Olympics successful Cortina and Milan tally from Feb. 4 to Feb. 26.

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Russia has violated the Olympic Truce 3 times successful 14 years, warring a warfare with Georgia implicit the disputed territory of South Ossetia during the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and launching a subject takeover that annexed the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine aft the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics closed, earlier violating it again successful 2022. 

Russia was barred from competing astatine the Paris Olympics successful 2024 owed to the timing of the Ukraine invasion. However, Russian athletes did vie arsenic neutrals, and were allowed to be the closing ceremony. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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