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United Nations Declares June 21 as ’International Day of Yoga’


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New York, Dec 11:  The United Nations General Assembly today adopted an India-led resolution declaring June 21 as ’International Day of Yoga’. This comes less than three months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi proposed the idea.
 
It  was introduced by India’s Ambassador to the United Nations Asoke Mukerji today and had 175 nations joining as co-sponsors, the highest number ever for any resolution in the 193-member UN Genral Assembly. This is also for the first time that such an initiative has been proposed and implemented by any country in the UN body in less than 90 days.

 

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"The very fact that today in the UN General Assembly, this draft resolution has garnered a record number of 175 co-sponsors, including the vast majority of member states of all the regional and sub-regional groups of the General Assembly, as well as all the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, is a testimony to the enthusiastic cross cultural and universal appeal that Yoga enjoys amongst members of the United Nations," Mr Mukerji said.

Through the resolution, adopted under the agenda of ’Global Health and Foreign Policy,’ the General  Assembly recognised that Yoga "provides a holistic approach to health and well-being" and that wider the dissemination of information about benefits of practising Yoga would be beneficial for the health of the world population.

In introducing the resolution, Mr Mukerji quoted from PM Modi’s address to the United Nations General Seembly in which he had asked world leaders to adopt an international Yoga day, saying that by changing lifestyle and creating consciousness, it can help us deal with climate change.

"Yoga embodies unity of mind and body; thought and action; restraint and fulfilment; harmony between man and nature; a holistic approach to health and well being," PM Modi had said.

In suggesting June 21 as the International Day of Yoga, PM Modi had said that the date, one of the two solstices, is the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere and has special significance in many parts of the world.


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