Return or Restitution of Cultural Property to the Countries of Origin

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 20Restitution of works of art to countries victims of expropriation, published in 1979.

What other versions does this mandate have?

18 versions · 1979–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/133

2024A/RES/79/133Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of originLatestCompare with previous version
2021A/RES/76/16Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of originCompare with previous version
2018A/RES/73/130Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of originCompare with previous version
2015A/RES/70/76Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of originCompare with previous version
2013A/RES/67/80Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of originCompare with previous version

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What subjects does this mandate have?

2 topics

Art Works Cultural Property Restitution

What does this mandate say?

23 operative paragraphs

Decides to convene the International Conference for the Promotion of International Co-operation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy under the auspices of the United Nations system, with the International Atomic Energy Agency fulfilling its appropriate role, in principle by 1983, in accordance with the objectives of General Assembly resolution 32/ 50;

Invites all States to communicate to the Secretary-General their views on the agenda, date and duration of the Conference and other matters relevant to its preparation;

Requests the Secretary-General to urge all States to communicate to him their views on the matters referred to in paragraph 2 above and requests him to submit a report thereon to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth session.

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Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin

Commends the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization for the work it has done in connexion with the return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin;

Requests the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to continue its valuable efforts to find suitable solutions for the problems relating to the return or restitution of cultural property and urges Member States to co-operate closely with that organization in this field;

Invites Member States to take all necessary steps for the return or restitution of cultural property through, inter alia, bilateral arrangements;

Welcomes the establishment by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its twentieth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin or its Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation;26 5.

Invites all Governments to accede to the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, 21 adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on 14 November 1970;

Appeals to Member States to encourage the mass information media and educational and cultural institutions to strive to arouse a greater and more general awareness with regard to the return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin;

Requests the Secretary-General to take the necessary steps to associate the United Nations with the activities of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization directed towards the return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin, including the mobilization for that purpose of the information media of the United Nations;

Requests the Secretary-General, in collaboration with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session a re-

24 A/34/529 and Corr, 1, annex.

25 Ibid., para. S.

26 Ibid., annex, appendix I.

27 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference Sixteenth Session, vol. 1, Resolutions, pp. 135-141.

port on the implementation of the present resolution and of all previous resolutions adopted by the Assembly on this question;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-sixth session an item entitled "Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin".

34/65. Question of Palestine

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Expresses its grave concern that no just solution to the problem of Palestine has been achieved and that this problem therefore continues to aggravate the Middle East conflict, of which it is the core, and to endanger international peace and security;

Reaffirms that a just and lasting peace in the Middle East cannot be established without the achievement, inter alia, of a just solution of the problem of Palestine on the basis of the attainment of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including the right of return and the right to national independence and sovereignty in Palestine, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations;

Calls once more for the invitation of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the representative of the Palestinian people, to participate, on the basis of General Assembly resolution 3237 (XXIX), in all efforts, deliberations and conferences on the Middle East which are held under the auspices of the United Nations, on an equal footing with other parties;

Endorses the recommendations of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People contained in paragraphs 52 to 55 of its report;

Expresses its regret and concern that the recommendations of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolutions 31 /20, 32/ 40 A and 33 / 28 A have not been implemented;

Notes with regret that the Security Council bas not taken the action it was urged to take by the General Assembly in paragraph 4 of its resolution 32/ 40 A;

Once again urges the Security Council to consider and take as soon as possible a decision on the recommendations endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolutions 31/20, 32/40 A and 33/28 A and in the present resolution;

28 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 35 (A/34/35 and Corr.1).

211 Ibid., Thirty-fourth Session, Plenary Meetings, 77th meeting, paras. 70-118. II. Resolutlom adopted witbollt refereace to a Main Committee Authorizes and requests the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, in the event of the Security Council failing to consider or to take a decision on those recommendations by 31 March 1980, to consider that situation and to make the suggestions it deems appropriate;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-fifth session the item entitled "Question of Palestine".

B

Notes with concern that the Camp David accords have been concluded outside the framework of the United Nations and without the participation of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the representative of the Palestinian people;

Rejects those provisions of the accords which ignore, infringe, violate or deny the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including the ri~t of return, the right of self-determination and the right to national independence and sovereignty in Palestine, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, and which envisage and condone continued Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967;

Strongly condemns all partial agreements and separate treaties which constitute a flagrant violation of the rights of the Palestinian people, the principles of the Charter and the resolutions adopted in the various international forums on the Palestinian issue;

Declares that the Camp David accords and other agreements have no validity in so far as they purport to determine the future of the Palestinian people and of the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967.

C

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