UrgesGovernments to make cultural values, both material and spiritual, an integral part of development efforts by giving attention in particular to the following:
a
The fullest possible access of all people to places, buildings, facilities and institutions which serve as media of cultural transmission and form a system of ideas promoting national culture;
( b) The preservation and/ or restoration of sites of special historical importance;
( c) Involvement of the population in the elaboration and implementation of measures ensuring preservation and further development of cultural and moral values;
tl8 See A/9227.
d
Wide education and information activity with a view to:
i
Encouraging civic responsibility for the cultural heritage to enable every individua,1 to absorb and use cultural values, both material and spiI:- itual, as a means of advancement and devel-.
opment of his personality;
ii
Making the public aware of the social and aesthetic significance of the cultural environment;
iii
Enhancing and developing living valtl.es through free creative activity;
( e) The identification, preservation and devefopment of the varied cultural values of each region in order to maintain and make the widest possible use of local aspirations in the implementation of development plans, especially as regards the· improvement of living conditions and the-general·quality ofiife-; ·· · •
2
Recognites · tha,t 5=onfacts . and exchanges among various cultures, conducted on the basis of equality and with due: regard to ·the· principle of sovereignty of States, may positively contrwuta to· the' enrichment and development o"f national cu1tutes and regional cultural values;
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3
Appealstcr 1111.M~fuber State$ to respect national legislation for the prote-ction, qf .the. artistie lieritage;
4
Requeststhe. Director-Oederltl of the Unit~d Nations Educational, Scientilic and ·cuttural Organization, in co-operation with Member Statc_s, to study all the legal implicattom flowing frnm the· existence of lcgisla-. tion for the protect.ion of. the Jlational artistic heritage, including problems of exchange and. the voluntary return of various cultural ;-Vorks;
5
Recommendsthat the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, taking· due account of the work already done, should initiate, within the exjsting facilities at his disposal, the· prepar1:1tion of an interdisciplinary programme of research in education, mass communication and development plannhig, designed to preserve and further develop and promote wider knowledge of distinctive cultural values· in this era of accelerated scientific and technological development, and, in particular, should:
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a
Ass~mble information on the above-mentioned problems in various social and cultural contexts;
( b) Promote the international -exchange of information concerning the development and application of methods now employed by States for the preservation and further development of cultural values;
c
Analyse the role of the mass media in the preservation and further development of cultural values, in particular with respect to integration of the mass media into national cultural policies;
6
Requeststhe Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-first session on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution;
7
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-first session an item entitled "Preservation and
