A/RES/68/223
United Nations
Distr.: General
12 February 2014
General Assembly
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 21 (d)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2013
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/68/440/Add.4)]
68/223. Culture and sustainable development
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United
Nations,
Recalling its resolutions 41/187 of 8 December 1986, 46/158 of 19 December
1991, 51/179 of 16 December 1996, 52/197 of 18 December 1997, 53/184 of
15 December 1998, 55/192 of 20 December 2000, 57/249 of 20 December 2002,
65/166 of 20 December 2010 and 66/208 of 22 December 2011, concerning culture
and development, and 66/288 of 27 July 2012, entitled “The future we want”,
Recalling also the adoption by the General Conference of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization of the Universal Declaration on
Cultural Diversity 1 and the Action Plan for its implementation, 2 on 2 November
2001, and of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of
Cultural Expressions 3 on 20 October 2005, as well as other international
conventions of that organization that acknowledge the important role of cultural
diversity for social and economic development, 4
Noting the adoption by the Executive Board of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its 192nd session, held from
23 September to 11 October 2013, of a decision highlighting the need to intensify
efforts to integrate culture as an enabler and driver of sustainable development in
the post-2015 development agenda,
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1
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference,
Thirty-first Session, Paris, 15 October–3 November 2001, vol. 1 and corrigendum, Resolutions, sect. V,
resolution 25, annex I.
2
Ibid., annex II.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2440, No. 43977.
4
The Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (1954); the
Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of
Ownership of Cultural Property (1970); the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural
and Natural Heritage (1972); the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage (2001);
and the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003).
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