A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/52/197 26 February 1998 Fifty-second session Agenda item 97 (i) RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Second Committee (A/52/628/Add.9)] 52/197. Cultural development The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 41/187 of 8 December 1986, in which it proclaimed the period 1988-1997 the World Decade for Cultural Development, 46/158 of 19 December 1991, in which it requested the SecretaryGeneral to cooperate with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in establishing an independent World Commission on Culture and Development, and expected the World Commission to submit its final report to the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and to the United Nations General Assembly no later than three years after it began its work, and 51/179 of 16 December 1996, concerning the report of the World Commission, Noting the fact that public opinion throughout the world as well as Governments and non-governmental organizations have become much more sensitive to the need for better integration of the cultural dimension into the entire development process, Recognizing that this awareness of the central importance of culture is, nevertheless, insufficiently present in development policy and practice, 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 in the work of the World Commission and its follow-up, Taking note of the first meeting of Ministers of Culture of non-aligned countries, held at Medellín, Colombia, on 4 and 5 September 1997,1 1 See A/52/432. 98-76969 /...