Kazakhstan will commemorate International Sports Day on April 6

ASTANA. KAZINFORM – As the Asian Boxing Confederation reports, April 6 marks the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace declared by the UN General Assembly Resolution in 2013.
The sponsors of the resolution are Kazakhstan, Belarus, Georgia, Macedonia, Russia, Romania and Serbia. The initiators believe that the Sports Day will be a good addition to the International Olympic Day, which is commemorate on June 23. The Vice-President of the Amateur International Boxing Association (AIBA), the President of the Asian Boxing Confederation Mr. Serik Konakbayev commented on the holiday.
“Indeed, the world sport community will celebrate this year for the fifth time the International Sport Day for Development and Peace. The name of the holiday implies that sport plays the great constructive role in the unification of countries and peoples. A bright, so to speak a “fresh” example, is the situation with North and South Korea. Progress in improving relations between the two countries has begun precisely with the Olympics in Pyeongchang. It appeared to be the starting point in the conflict resolution on the Korean peninsula. After all, sport has a unique ability to bring people together and unite in order to achieve a common goal. I always say that my big dream is a truce to conflict during the Olympic Games in today’s world. This is not invented by us, as the ancient philosophy of these competitions says, during the Games “the sacred world” was declared and the roads to Olympia were opened and safe,” said Serik Konakbayev.
The date April 6 was not chosen at random. The first modern Olympic Games were held from 6 to 15 of April, 1896.
“As far as I know, many countries are now actively celebrating this day. It is no coincidence that Kazakhstan was among the first to support this UN resolution because much attention is paid to sports in our country. Our president is probably the very first and the main fan of our athletes, they always feel his support and care. The joint initiative of the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee to declare this holiday gives us additional opportunities to increase the mass character and equal access to sports activities of the population on a planetary scale,” concluded Mr. Serik Konakbayev.
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