A/RES/58/17. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2003

• Resolution Number: A/RES/58/17
• Year: 2003
• Session: 58th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/58/17

General Assembly Distr.: General

19 December 2003

Fifty-eighth session

Agenda item 43

03 45393

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 3 December 2003

[without reference to a Main Committee (A/58/L.20 and Add.1)]

58/17. Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries

of origin

The General Assembly

,

Reaffirming

the relevant provisions of the Charter of the United Nations,

Recalling

its resolutions 3026 A (XXVII) of 18 December 1972,

3148 (XXVIII) of 14 December 1973, 3187 (XXVIII) of 18 December 1973,

3391 (XXX) of 19 November 1975, 31/40 of 30 November 1976, 32/18 of

11 November 1977, 33/50 of 14 December 1978, 34/64 of 29 November 1979,

35/127 and 35/128 of 11 December 1980, 36/64 of 27 November 1981, 38/34 of

25 November 1983, 40/19 of 21 November 1985, 42/7 of 22 October 1987, 44/18 of

6 November 1989, 46/10 of 22 October 1991, 48/15 of 2 November 1993, 50/56 of

11 December 1995, 52/24 of 25 November 1997, 54/190 of 17 December 1999 and

56/97 of 14 December 2001,

Recalling also

its resolution 56/8 of 21 November 2001, in which it

proclaimed 2002 as the United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage,

Recalling further

the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the

Event of Armed Conflict, adopted at The Hague on 14 May 1954,

1

and the two

Protocols thereto, adopted in 1954 and 1999,

Recalling

the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the

Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, adopted on

14 November 1970 by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational,

Scientific and Cultural Organization,

2

Recalling also

the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural

and Natural Heritage, adopted on 16 November 1972 by the General Conference of

the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,

3

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1 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 249, No. 3511.

2 See United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General

Conference, Sixteenth Session, Paris, 12 October-14 November 1970, vol. 1: Resolutions.

3 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1037, No. 15511.