In addition to actions recommended by committees, 64 resolutions adopted directly by Assembly.

The General Assembly on 20 November called for the promotion of a "culture of peace based on the principles established in the Charter of the United Nations and on respect for human rights, democracy and tolerance".

By the same resolution - one of 64 adopted in plenary - the Assembly urged the "promotion of development, education for peace, the free flow of information and the wider participation of women as an integral approach to preventing violence and conflicts, and efforts aimed at the creation of conditions for peace and its consolidation". It asked the Secretary-General to submit to its fifty-third session a consolidated report containing a draft declaration and programme of action on a culture of peace.

By another text, the Assembly proclaimed the year 2000 the International Year for the Culture of Peace.

On 16 December, in commending the courage of those who took part in humanitarian operations, often at great personal risk, the Assembly strongly condemned "any act or failure to act which obstructs or prevents humanitarian personnel from discharging their humanitarian functions, or which entails their being subjected to threats, the use of force or physical attack frequently resulting in injury or death".

Taking up the issue of mine clearance, the Assembly on 18 December welcomed the United Nations' efforts in fostering the establishment of "mine-clearance capacities in countries where mines constitute a serious threat to the safety, health and lives of the local population", and urged all Member States, particularly those that had a capacity to do so, to assist afflicted countries in the establishment and development of their national mine-clearance capacities.

In a resolution on the implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development (6-12 March 1995, Copenhagen), the Assembly emphasized that democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right to development, transparent and accountable governance and administration in all sectors of society, and effective participation by civil society were an "essential part of the necessary foundations for the realization of social and people-centred sustainable development".

In underlining the "positive role of the private sector in supporting economic growth and development, as well as in the mobilization of resources", the Assembly called upon the United Nations funds and programmes to strengthen support to the promotion of entrepreneurship. It also stated that there was a need to assist in particular the developing countries, as well as those with economies in transition, in "strengthening their capacity to encourage wider participation of the private sector".

A number of texts dealt with providing assistance to individual countries and regions, such as: the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Central African countries receiving refugees; El Salvador; Lebanon; Liberia; the Sudan; the Alliance for the Sustainable Development of Central America; States affected by the implementation of Security Council sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; Tajikistan; Montserrat; Djibouti; Somalia; the Semipalatinsk region of Kazakhstan, which had been a nuclear testing ground; and the Palestinian people.

A separate resolution was adopted on efforts to study, mitigate and minimize the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine.

Some other texts related to: the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina; the Middle East; implementation of the Declaration on the Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples; the law of the sea; largescale pelargic drift-net fishing; support by the United Nations system of the efforts to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies; and cooperation between the United Nations and various regional and intergovernmental organizations.