Recalling resolution 28 adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its thirty-first session, proclaiming 2004 the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition,See United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference, Thirty-first Session, Paris, 15 October-3 November 2001, vol. 1 and corrigendum: Resolutions, chap. V. and recalling also that 23 August is that Organization's International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition,
回顾联合国教育、科学及文化组织第三十一届大会通过的第28号决议，其中宣布2004年为纪念反对奴隶制并争取消除奴隶制斗争的国际年，见联合国教育、科学及文化组织，《大会记录，第三十一届会议，2001年10月15日至11月3日，巴黎》，第一卷：《决议》，第五章。 又回顾8月23日是该组织纪念贩卖奴隶和废除贩卖奴隶国际日，