UN declares June 21 as world yoga day
PM hails UN decision
- PM
Narendra Modi expressed joy over the UN General Assembly adopting an
India-led resolution declaring June 21 as 'International Day of Yoga'
and thanked all 177 nations of the global body. "Elated! Have no words
to describe my joy on the @UN declaring 21st June as 'International Day
of Yoga'. I fully welcome the decision," Modi tweeted.
United Nations, December 11
Less than three months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi proposed the
idea, the UN General Assembly today adopted an India-led resolution
declaring June 21 as “International Day of Yoga”, recognising that “yoga
provides a holistic approach to health and well-being.”
The resolution on “International Day of Yoga” was introduced by India’s
Ambassador to UN Asoke Mukerji today and had 175 nations joining as
co-sponsors, the highest number ever for any General Assembly
resolution. It 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.
Through the resolution, adopted under the agenda of “Global Health and
Foreign Policy,” the 193-member General Assembly decided to proclaim
June 21 every year as “International Day of Yoga”. It 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, Mukerji quoted Modi’s UNGA address 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. — PTI
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