U   INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION  AGAINST DOPING IN SPORT CONVENTION INTERNATIONALE  CONTRE LE DOPAGE DANS LE SPORT CONVENCIÓN INTERNACIONAL CONTRA EL DOPAJE EN EL DEPORTE МЕЖДУНАРОДНАЯ  КОНВЕНЦИЯ   О БОРЬБЕ  С ДОПИНГОМ  В СПОРТЕ  ME¹WאMEK>tא K:7C&אMK@&MpKYאµKáí 反对在体育运动中使用兴奋剂 国 际 公 约        ED.2005/CONVENTION ANTI-DOPING Rev    U        INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION  AGAINST DOPING IN SPORT             Paris, 19 October 2005  INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION  AGAINST DOPING IN SPORT The General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, hereinafter referred to as “UNESCO”, meeting in Paris, from 3 to 21 October 2005, at its 33rd session, Considering  that the aim of UNESCO is to contribute to peace and security by promoting collaboration among nations through education, science and culture, Referring  to existing international instru ments relating to human rights, Aware of resolution 58/5 adopted by the Gene ral Assembly of the United Nations on 3 November 2003, concerning sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace, notably its paragraph 7, Conscious  that sport should play an important role  in the protection of  health, in moral, cultural and physical education and in promo ting international unders tanding and peace, Noting the need to encourage and coordinate  international cooperation towards the elimination of doping in sport, Concerned  by the use of doping by athletes in sport and the consequences thereof for their health, the principle of fair play, the elimin ation of cheating and the future of sport, Mindful that doping puts at risk the ethical principl es and educational values embodied in the International Charter of Physical Educati on and Sport of UNESCO and in the Olympic Charter, Recalling  that the Anti-Doping Convention and its A dditional Protocol adopted within the framework of the Council of Euro pe are the public internationa l law tools which are at the origin of national anti-doping policie s and of intergovernmental cooperation, Recalling  the recommendations on doping adopted by the second, third and fourth International Conferences of Ministers and Senior Official s Responsible for Physical Education and Sport organized by UNESCO at Moscow (1988), Punta del Este (1999) and Athens (2004) and 32 C/Resolution 9 adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO at its 32nd session (2003), Bearing in mind  the World Anti-Doping Code adopted by the World Anti-Doping Agency at the World Conference on Doping in Sport, Copenhagen, 5 March 2003 , and the Copenhagen Declaration on Anti- Doping in Sport, Mindful also  of the influence that el ite athletes have on youth, Aware of the ongoing need to conduct and promote re search with the objectives of improving detection of doping and better un derstanding of the factors affecting use in order for prevention strategies to be most effective, Aware also  of the importance of ongoing education of  athletes, athlete support personnel and the community at large in preventing doping, – 2 – Mindful of the need to build the capacity of States Parties to implement anti-doping programmes, Aware that public authorities and the organizations responsible for sport have complementary responsibilities to prevent and combat doping in spor t, notably to  ensure the proper conduct, on the basis of the principle of fair play, of sports  events and to protect the health of those that take part in them, Recognizing  that these authorities and organizations must work together for these purposes, ensuring the highest degree of independence an d transparency at all appropriate levels, Determined  to take further and stronger cooperative  action aimed at the elimination of doping in sport, Recognizing  that the elimination of doping in spor t is dependent in part upon progressive harmonization of anti-doping stan dards and practices in sport and cooperation at the national and global levels, Adopts this Convention on this nine teenth day of October 2005.