A/RES/56/97 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 30 January 2002 Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 33 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [without reference to a Main Committee (A/56/L.41/Rev.1 and Add.1)] 56/97. 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 and 54/190 of 17 December 1999, Bearing in mind its resolution 56/8 of 21 November 2001 on the proclamation of 2002 as the United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage, Recalling the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, adopted at The Hague on 14 May 1954, 1 Recalling also the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, adopted on 14 November 1970 by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2 Recalling further the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, adopted on 16 November 1972 by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 3 _______________ 1 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 249, No. 3511. See United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference, Sixteenth Session, Paris, 12 October–14 November 1970, vol. I: Resolutions. 3 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1037, No. 15511. 2 01 47975