38th plenary meeting

23 July 1986

World decade for cultural development

The Economic and Social Council,

Having been informed of recommendation No. 27 adopted by the World Conference on Cultural Policies organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at Mexico City in 1982, in which it recommended that the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization propose to the General Assembly of the United Nations the proclamation of a world decade for cultural development,

Having also been informed of the matter by the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in conformity with resolution 11.10 adopted by the General Conference at its twenty-third session and decision 5.4.1 adopted by the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its one hundred and twenty-fourth session,

Taking note of the draft plan of action for the decade submitted by the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,

Recalling that the subject was raised in a preliminary manner at its second regular session of 1984 and that, by its decision 1984/176 of 26 July 1984, it took note of the proposal,

Recommends the General Assembly to take a decision at its forty-first session on the question of the proclamation of a world decade for cultural development.