A/RES/52/197 Page 2 1. Takes note of the note by the Secretary-General on the progress of the World Decade for Cultural Development during the period 1994-1997;2 2. Invites all Member States, intergovernmental bodies and organizations of the United Nations system and non-governmental organizations: (a) To ensure that the lessons and experiences gained and the momentum generated through the World Decade and the World Commission on Culture and Development are reflected in all their development strategies, as appropriate; (b) To submit their comments to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on the report of the World Commission on Culture and Development, entitled Our Creative Diversity;3 (c) To intensify their efforts to integrate cultural factors into their development programmes and projects, so as to ensure sustainable development that fully respects cultural diversity, taking into account their cultural values and identity; 3. Stresses the importance of the question of interaction between culture and development, and encourages the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to accord priority to this theme in its work; 4. Encourages the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to pursue its ongoing task of promoting throughout the United Nations system a greater awareness of the crucial relationship between culture and development, taking into account the diversity of cultures; 5. Welcomes the convening in Stockholm in 1998 of an intergovernmental conference on cultural policies for development, organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; 6. Requests the Secretary-General, in the elaboration of the international development strategy for the next United Nations development decade, to include recommendations for the integration of the cultural dimension in development activities; 7. Also requests the Secretary-General to include the outcome of the Stockholm conference in his report on the implementation of the present resolution to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session. 77th plenary meeting 18 December 1997 2 A/52/382. 3 Paris, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1996.