A/RES/57/158 protection of ecologically sensitive areas and natural heritages by, inter alia, enhancing international cooperation, 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, Taking into consideration the thirtieth anniversary of the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage in 2002, Taking note of the decision taken by the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its one hundred and sixty-fourth session with regard to the United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage, 2002, 7 Recalling its resolution 56/8 of 21 November 2001, in which it proclaimed 2002 as the United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage and invited the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to serve as the lead agency for the year, 1. Declares the United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage concluded; 2. Invites the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, in collaboration with States, observers, relevant United Nations bodies, within their respective mandates, other international organizations and relevant non-governmental organizations, to continue to intensify the implementation of programmes, activities and projects aimed at the promotion and protection of the world cultural heritage; 3. Invites Member States and observers to continue to promote education and raise public awareness to foster respect for national and world cultural heritage; 4. Reaffirms the importance of further developing international mechanisms for safeguarding and protecting the world cultural heritage, and encourages the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to explore possible ways to intensify international cooperation in this regard, inter alia, by considering the merits of convening an international conference on strengthening and consolidating international mechanisms for safeguarding and protecting the world cultural heritage; 5. Invites the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to address and present to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session an overview of the activities undertaken during the United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage; 6. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session an item entitled “Follow-up to the United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage”. 76th plenary meeting 16 December 2002 _______________ 7 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Decisions Adopted by the Executive Board at its One Hundred and Sixty-fourth Session, Paris, 21–30 May 2002 (164 EX/Decisions), decision 7.1.2. 2