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UN declares December 21 Meditation Day, India among co-sponsors of draft resolution

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India co-sponsored a UN General Assembly draft resolution that was unanimously adopted to proclaim December 21 as World Meditation Day.

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India, including Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Mexico and Andorra, was a member of the core group of countries that guided the unanimous adoption of the resolution titled ‘World Meditation Day’ in the 193-member UNGA on Friday.

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“A day for comprehensive wellbeing and inner transformation! Glad that India along with other nations of the core group guided the unanimous adoption of the resolution on the declaration of December 21 as World Meditation Day @UN General Assembly today (Friday),” India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish said in a post on X.

He said India’s leadership in wellbeing stemmed from “our civilisational dictum of #VasudhaivaKutumbakam - the whole world is one family”.

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