Restitution and Return of Cultural and Artistic Property to Its Countries of Origin

A/RES/35/128View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 70 Preservation and further development of cultural values, including the protection, restitution and return of cultural and artistic property, published in 1981.

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3 subjects

Art Works Cultural Property Restitution Cultural Values

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25 operative paragraphs

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Further requests the Secretary-General to convene the first session of the Advisory Committee in early 1981, to provide it with all necessary assistance and to submit its first report to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session;

Invites the Advisory Committee to pay particular attention to regional and international meetings dealing with youth or related to youth questions and requests the Secretary-General to provide every means to assist it in this regard;

Calls upon the Advisory Committee, when applying paragraph 7 above, to seek information about the activities of regional and international meetings dealing with youth or related to youth questions;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide a list of relevant meetings for the first session of the Advisory Committee and invites the Committee to consider the question of being represented at such meetings in consultation with the bodies concerned;

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Further requests the Secretary-General to continue to take concrete measures, through all the communications media at his disposal, to give widespread publicity to the activities of the United Nations system in the field of youth and to increase the dissemination of information on youth;

Appeals to all States, to international governmental and non-governmental organizations and to the public to make in due time generous voluntary contributions to supplement funds provided under the United Nations regular budget for the costs of the programme of the International Youth Year and requests the Secretary-General to take all appropriate measures for obtaining such voluntary contributions;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-sixth session the item entitled "International Youth Year: Participation, Development, Peace" and to grant it high priority.

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 50 on the preservation and further development of cultural values, including the protection. restitution and return of cultural and artistic property;

Commends the United Nations Educational. Scientific and Cultural Organization for including on a continuing basis the problem of the preservation and

further development of cultural values in its mediumterm and long-term plans and for the significant results already accomplished in that field;

Calls upon the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to continue pursuing active efforts with a view to promoting the preservation and further development of cultural values, including the inscription of the subject on the agenda of the World Conference on Cultural Policies, to be held in 1982.

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Return or restitution of cultural and artistic property to its countries of origin

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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 its countries of origin;

Requests the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to intensify its efforts to help the countries concerned to find suitable solutions to the problems relating to the return or restitution of cultural property and urges Member States to co-operate with that organization in this area;

Invites Member States to draw up, in cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, systematic inventories of cultural property existing in their territories and of cultural property abroad;

Appeals to all States to take adequate measures to prohibit and prevent the illicit import, export and transfer of ownership of cultural property;

Further appeals to Member States to co-operate closely with the Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin or its Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation, particularly through bilateral agreements, in order to encourage the return or restitution of their cultural property;

Invites once again Governments to accede without delay to the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, of 14 November 1970;

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 its countries of origin;

Requests the Secretary-General, in co-operation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to take the necessary measures to alert and mobilize international public opinion in favour of the return or restitution of cultural property to its countries of origin, in particular by mobilizing the United Nations information media for this purpose;

Expresses the desire that the second World Conference on Cultural Policies, to be held in 1982, will devote considerable attention to the question of the return or restitution of cultural property with a view to improving international cultural co-operation;

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Requests the Secretary-General to take the above considerations into account when preparing, in collaboration with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the report which is to be submitted to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session in accordance with resolution 34 /64.

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Calls upon the Secretary-General to take all necessary measures to enable the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs, in close co-operation with the specialized agencies and organizations concerned, to undertake all the necessary preparatory and follow-up activities of the World Assembly on the Elderly;

Adopts the recommendations of the Economic and Social Council contained in its resolution 1980 /26;

Decides to change the name of the World Assembly on the Elderly to the World Assembly on Aging in view of the interrelatedness of the issues of aging individuals and the aging of populations as defined by the Secretary-General's draft programme;

Requests the Secretary-General to establish a voluntary fund for the World Assembly on Aging and to inform Member States of the existence of the fund;

Appeals to Member States to make in due time generous voluntary contributions to the Fund for the World Assembly on Aging;

Requests the Secretary-General to launch a campaign, as soon as possible, to establish an appropriate emblem for the World Assembly on Aging;

Invites the United Nations Fund for Population Activities to continue to provide financial support to the preparatory work for the World Assembly on Aging as well as to the implementation of the international programme of action which would result from the Assembly;

Invites Member States to consider establishing national committees for the World Assembly on Aging and to conduct activities at the national level along the lines of the Secretary-General's programme and in ways that are in conformity with the culture, customs and traditions of each country;

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' United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference. Sixteenth Session, vol. 1, Resolutions, pp. l 3.'i-141

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Who adopted this document and its mandates?

What subjects does this mandate have?

What’s in this document?

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35/129. Problems of the elderly and the aged

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