Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin.
- Author: UN General Assembly (34th sess. : 1979-1980)
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Date:
29 November 1979
34. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED WITHOUT REFERENCE TO A MAIN COMMITTEE
64. Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin
1. Commends the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization for the work it has done in connexion with the return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin;
2. Requests the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to continue its valuable efforts to find suitable solutions for the problems relating to the return or restitution of cultural property and urges Member States to co-operate closely with that organization in this field;
3. Invites Member States to take all necessary steps for the return or restitution of cultural property through, inter alia, bilateral arrangements;
4. Welcomes the establishment by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its twentieth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin or its Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation;[3]
5. Invites all Governments to accede to the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property,[4] adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on 14 November 1970;
6. Appeals to Member States to encourage the mass information media and educational and cultural institutions to strive to arouse a greater and more general awareness with regard to the return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin;
7. Requests the Secretary-General to take the necessary steps to associate the United Nations with the activities of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization directed towards the return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin, including the mobilization for that purpose of the information media of the United Nations;
8. Requests the Secretary-General, in collaboration with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution and Of all previous resolutions adopted by the Assembly on this question;
9. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-sixth session an item entitled "Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin".
82nd plenary meeting29 November 1979
[1] A/34/529 and Corr.1, annex. [2] Ibid., para. 5. [3] Ibid., annex, appendix I. [4] United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference, Sixteenth Session, vol. 1, Resolutions, pp. 135-141.
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