Protection, restitution and return of cultural and artistic property as part of the preservation and further development of cultural values — A/RES/33/50 | UN Mandate Registry
Protection, Restitution and Return of Cultural and Artistic Property as Part of the Preservation and Further Development of Cultural Values
Commends the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization for the work done in connexion with the restitution and return of cultural and artistic property;
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Welcomes the establishment of the Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin or its Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation;
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Requeststhe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to continue its valuable efforts to find suitable solutions for the problems relating to the restitution and return of cultural and artistic property and urges Member States to cooperate with that organization in this field;
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InvitesMember States to take all possible steps for the restitution and return of cultural and artistic property, including manuscripts and documents, through, inter alia, the establishment of bilateral arrangements;
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Invitesall Governments to accede to the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property,82 adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on 14 November 1970;
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Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-fifth session an item entitled "Preservation and further development of cultural values, including the protection, restitution and return of cultural and artistic property".
2s Resolutions 3201 (S-VI) and 3202 (S-VI). 29 Resolution 3281 (XXIX). 80 Resolution 2542 (XXIV). 81 See A/33/157.
82 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference, Sixteenth Session, vol. 1, Resolutions, pp. 135-141.
83 Resolution 2200 (XXI), annex.
84 Resolution 217 A (III).
35 Human Rights: A Compilation of International Instruments (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.78.XIV.2), sect. A.
