United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/58/124
Distr.: General
17 February 2004
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 42
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2003
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/58/L.11/Rev.2 and Add.1)]
58/124. United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage, 2002
The General Assembly,
Recalling the international conventions dealing with the protection of cultural
and natural heritage, including the Convention for the Protection of Cultural
Property in the Event of Armed Conflict adopted at The Hague in 1954 1 and the two
Protocols thereto, the 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing
the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, 2 and the
1972 Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, 3 as
well as the 1989 Recommendation on the Safeguarding of Traditional Culture and
Folklore 4 and the 2001 Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity of the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 5
Welcoming the ratification of the Convention for the Protection of the World
Cultural and Natural Heritage by one hundred and seventy-six States parties, and
noting the inscription of seven hundred and fifty-four sites on the World Heritage
List,
Noting the adoption of the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater
Cultural Heritage by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization on 2 November 2001, 6
Mindful of the importance of protecting the world cultural tangible and
intangible heritage as a common ground for the promotion of mutual understanding
and enrichment among cultures and civilizations,
Noting the work already undertaken to protect the world cultural and natural
heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,
including international campaigns,
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 249, No. 3511.
Ibid., vol. 823, No. 11806.
3
Ibid., vol. 1037, No. 15511.
4
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference,
Twenty-fifth Session, Paris, 17 October–16 November 1989, vol. 1: Resolutions, annex I.B.
5
Ibid., Thirty-first Session, Paris, 15 October–3 November 2001, vol. 1 and corrigendum: Resolutions,
resolution 25, annex I.
6
Ibid., resolution 24.
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