United Nations
A/RES/57/158
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 January 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 23
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/57/L.59 and Add.1)]
57/158. 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, 5
Welcoming the ratification of the Convention for the Protection of the World
Cultural and Natural Heritage by one hundred and seventy-five States parties, and
noting the inscription of more than seven hundred and thirty sites on the World
Heritage List,
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,
Bearing in mind the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on
Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”) 6 which calls for
actions to promote sustainable tourism development in order to increase the benefits
from tourism resources for the population in host communities while maintaining
the cultural and environmental integrity of host communities and enhancing the
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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. 1:17 October–16 November 1989, vol. 1:
Resolutions, annex IB.annex I.B.
5
Ibid., Thirty-first Session, Paris, 15 October–3 November 2001, vol. 1 and corrigendum: Resolutions,
resolution 25, annex I.
6
Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa,
26 August–4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum),
chap. I, resolution 2, annex.
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