Return or Restitution of Cultural Property to the Countries of Origin

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 27Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin, published in 1998.

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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
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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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8 topics

Cultural Cooperation Cultural Property Protection Cultural Property Restitution Illicit Traffic Inventories Negotiation Public Information Report Preparation

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5 operative paragraphs

Commends the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin or its Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation on the work they have accomplished, in particular through the promotion of bilateral negotiations, for the return or restitution of cultural property, the preparation of inventories of movable cultural property, the reduction of illicit traffic in cultural property and the dissemination of information to the public;

Reaffirms that the restitution to a country of its objets d'art, monuments, museum pieces, archives, manuscripts, documents and any other cultural or artistic treasures contributes to the strengthening of international cooperation and to the preservation and flowering of universal cultural values through fruitful cooperation between developed and developing countries;

Requests the Secretary-General, in collaboration with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to continue to develop all possibilities for bringing about the attainment of the objectives of resolution 50/56;

Also requests the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution;

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

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