A/RES/73/130
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
24 December 2018
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 10
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 13 December 2018
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.54 and A/73/L.54/Add.1)]
73/130.
Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the relevant provisions of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling its resolutions 3026 A (XXVII) of 18 December 1972, 3148 (XXVIII)
of 14 December 1973, 3187 (XXVIII) of 18 December 1973, 3391 (XXX) of
19 November 1975, 31/40 of 30 November 1976, 32/18 of 11 November 1977, 33/50
of 14 December 1978, 34/64 of 29 November 1979, 35/127 and 35/128 of
11 December 1980, 36/64 of 27 November 1981, 38/34 of 25 November 1983, 40/19
of 21 November 1985, 42/7 of 22 October 1987, 44/18 of 6 November 1989, 46/10 of
22 October 1991, 48/15 of 2 November 1993, 50/56 of 11 December 1995, 52/24 of
25 November 1997, 54/190 of 17 December 1999, 56/97 of 14 December 2001, 58/17
of 3 December 2003, 61/52 of 4 December 2006, 64/78 of 7 December 2009, 67/80
of 12 December 2012 and 70/76 of 9 December 2015,
Recalling also the 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing
the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, 1 the 1995
UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects, 2 the 1954
Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict 3
and the two Protocols thereto, 4 the 1972 Convention for the Protection of the World
Cultural and Natural Heritage, 5 the 2001 Convention on the Protection of the
Underwater Cultural Heritage, 6 the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 823, No. 11806.
Ibid., vol. 2421, No. 43718.
Ibid., vol. 249, No. 3511.
Ibid., vols. 249 and 2253, No. 3511.
Ibid., vol. 1037, No. 15511.
Ibid., vol. 2562, No. 45694.
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