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UNITED
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General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/53/184
2 February 1999
Fifty-third session
Agenda item 93 (g)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/53/608/Add.7)]
53/184. Cultural development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 41/187 of 8 December 1986, 46/158 of 19 December 1991, 51/179 of 16
December 1996 and 52/197 of 18 December 1997 on cultural development,
Noting the fact that public opinion throughout the world as well as Governments and nongovernmental organizations have become much more sensitive to the need for better integration of the
cultural dimension into the entire development process, as a result of the World Decade for Cultural
Development1 and the work of the World Commission on Culture and Development,
Acknowledging with satisfaction the active participation of Member States, United Nations bodies,
intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and individuals in the implementation of projects
of national, regional and interregional scope aiming at the promotion of the objectives of the Decade and
its follow-up, and in the work of the World Commission,
Taking note of the convening of the Intergovernmental Conference on Cultural Policies for
Development, held at Stockholm from 30 March to 2 April 1998,
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See resolution 41/187.
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