United Nations General Assembly A/HRC/RES/20/15 Distr.: General 17 July 2012 Original: English Human Rights Council Twentieth session Agenda item 5 Human rights bodies and mechanisms Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council 20/15. Promotion of the right to peace The Human Rights Council, Recalling all previous resolutions on the promotion of the right of peoples to peace adopted by the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council, in particular Council resolutions 14/3 of 17 June 2010 and 17/16 of 17 June 2011, in which the Council requested the Advisory Committee, in consultation with Member States, civil society, academia and all relevant stakeholders, to prepare a draft declaration on the right of peoples to peace, Recalling also General Assembly resolution 39/11 of 12 November 1984 entitled “Declaration of the Right of Peoples to Peace” and the United Nations Millennium Declaration, Determined to foster strict respect for the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, Welcoming the important work being carried out by civil society organizations for the promotion of the right to peace and their contribution to the development of this issue, Taking note of the draft declaration prepared by the Advisory Committee contained in its study1 submitted to the Human Rights Council, Bearing in mind the progressive development of this issue, 1. Decides to establish an open-ended intergovernmental working group with the mandate of progressively negotiating a draft United Nations declaration on the right to peace, on the basis of the draft submitted by the Advisory Committee, and without prejudging relevant past, present and future views and proposals;   1 GE.12- 16163 Reissued for technical reasons on 24 August 2012. The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its twentieth session (A/HRC/20/2), chap. I. A/HRC/20/31. 