The United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace (UNOSDP) was introduced by

Kofi Annan Kofi Atta Annan (; 8 April 193818 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founde ...

in 2001. Its mandate was to coordinate the efforts undertaken by the United Nations in promoting sport in a systematic and coherent way as a means to contribute to the achievement of development and peace. The second UN Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace was Wilfried Lemke from Bremen, Germany. He succeeded

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in March 2008. UNOSDP was situated at the

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. There was also a liaison office at

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in New York. The United Nations announced the closure of the Office on Sport for Development and Peace on 4 May 2017.

The UN Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace

Wilfried Lemke from Germany has been the Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace since March 2008. He was named by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Through this nomination, Lemke also holds the position of an

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. He reports directly to the Secretary-General. In his position as a Special Adviser, he replaced

from Switzerland. Ogi, former

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and politician, had served the UN as Special Adviser for close to seven years between 2001 and 2007.

References

External links

https://www.un.org/sport
(Archived)
6 April - UN International Day of Sport for Development and Peace

Panathlon
the international movement for fair play, created in 1951, supported by

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Sports21 - Agenda21 applied to sports
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