A/RES/53/184
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1.
Takes note of the note by the Secretary-General;2
2. Invites all States, intergovernmental bodies and organizations of the United Nations system and
non-governmental organizations:
(a) To implement the recommendations of the Action Plan on Cultural Policies for Development3
adopted by the Intergovernmental Conference on Cultural Policies for Development;
(b) To cooperate with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization for the
purpose of ensuring effective follow-up to the Action Plan;
(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. 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 and the need
to apply the recommendations of the Stockholm Conference;
4. Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the Director-General of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth
session a report on the implementation of the present resolution.
91st plenary meeting
15 December 1998
2
A/53/321.
3
Ibid., annex, appendix.