A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/51/179 11 February 1997 Fifty-first session Agenda item 96 (g) RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Second Committee (A/51/604/Add.7)] 51/179. Report of the World Commission on Culture and Development The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 41/187 of 8 December 1986, in which it proclaimed the period 1988-1997 the World Decade for Cultural Development, Recalling also its resolution 46/158 of 19 December 1991, in which it requested the Secretary-General to cooperate with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in establishing an independent World Commission on Culture and Development, and expected the World Commission to submit its final report to the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and to the United Nations General Assembly no later than three years after it began its work, Noting that the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has sent the report of the Commission, entitled Our Creative Diversity,1 to the member States of that organization for their comments, as well as to many non-governmental and academic bodies, 1. Requests the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the DirectorGeneral of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to stimulate further international debate on culture and development; 2. Encourages the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its twenty-ninth session 1 For a summary version of the report, see A/51/451, annex. 97-76717 /...