World Decade for Cultural Development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Reaffirms its support for a mid-term review to assess the progress made in implementing the Plan of Action for the Decade and to make proposals to further strengthen activities in this area, taking into account the changing circumstances and the new realities in the international community; invites the regional commissions, in consultation with Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, to carry out, within existing resources, an evaluation of the cultural factors influencing the development of the cultural sector as a potential creator of jobs and generator of income, for consideration in the context of the mid-term review of the Decade, in 1993; recommends that the organs, organizations and bodies of the UN system consider including activities relating to the Decade in the programme for the biennium 1992-1993, and requests them to coordinate those activities; invites the Secretary-General of UN and the Director-General of Unesco to include specific proposals on the modalities of a mid-term review, taking into account the views of Governments, in the 2nd biennial report on progress in the implementation of the World Decade for Cultural Development.

Adopted without vote, 71st meeting

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Adopted at the 71st plenary meeting, 21 Dec. 1990.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 45th session, Volume 1, 18 September-21 December 1990. - A/45/49. - 1991. - p. 116-117. - (GAOR, 45th sess., Suppl. no. 49).