"The Earth, home of humanity, constitutes a whole marked by interdependence." (Preamble to the Rio Declaration, Earth Summit, 1992)
We, the peoples of the United Nations, recall our attachment to the values of the Charter of the United Nations of 26 June 1945 and to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 10 December 1948, reaffirmed at the Vienna International Conference and integrated into the Millennium Declaration.
We observe that, having become a fact linked to globalisation, interdependence is both an opportunity and a risk: an opportunity, because the globalisation of flows testifies to a community of life that conditions the future of the planet and of humanity; a risk, because this phenomenon entails a globalisation of ecological and biotechnological risks, as well as risks of exclusion and marginalisation, and a globalisation of crime, threatening the security of persons, goods and the planet.
We declare that the community of life and destiny calls for the proclamation of the principle of planetary intersolidarity, implying the recognition of a diversity founded on tolerance and pluralism, and the conduct of a process of integration associating individuals, organisations, States and the international community.
Presented to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and to the President of the General Assembly Jan Eliasson, on 24 October 2005, for the 60th anniversary of the United Nations.
First signatories: Henri Atlan, James Bolger, Mireille Delmas-Marty, Ruth Dreifuss, Gareth Evans, Malcolm Fraser, Sacha Goldman, Morton Halperin, Stéphane Hessel, Milan Kučan, John Le Carré, Jean-David Levitte, Edgar Morin, Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, René Passet, Fidel Ramos, Jacques Robin, Mary Robinson, Michel Rocard, Mohamed Sahnoun, Andreas van Agt, George Vassiliou, Paul Virilio, Richard von Weizsäcker.