31st Session Paris, 15 October to 3 November 2001 …

1 31st SessionParis, 15 October to 3 November2001 Records of the General ConferenceVolume 1 Resolutions United Nations Educational, Scientific and cultural OrganizationRecords of the General Conference31st SessionParis, 15 October to 3 November 2001 Volume 1 ResolutionsUnited Nations Educational,Scientific andCultural OrganizationPublished in 2002by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and cultural Organization7, place de Fontenoy, 75352 PARIS 07 SPComposed and printed in the workshops of unesco , Paris unesco 2002 Note on the Records of the General ConferenceThe Records of the 31st Session of the General Conference are printed in two volumes:1 The present volume, containing the resolutions adopted by the General Conference, the reports of Commissions I to V,the Administrative Commission and the Legal Committee, and the list of officers of the General Conference and of theCommissions and Committees (Volume 1);The volume of Proceedings, which contains the verbatim records of plenary meetings, the list of participants and the listof documents (Volume 2).

2 Note on the numbering of resolutionsThe resolutions have been numbered serially. It is recommended that references to resolutions be made in one of thefollowing forms:In the body of the text: Resolution 15 adopted by the General Conference at its 31st Session ; or 31 C/Resolution 15 .In passing reference: (31 C/Resolution 15) or (31 C/Res. 15) . the 30th Session , the records of the General Conference were printed in three volumes: Resolutions (Volume 1); Reports (Volume 2);Proceedings (Volume 3).VContentsIOrganization of the Session and tribute to the Chairperson of theExecutive Board01 Credentials.

3 102 Communications received from Member States invoking the provisionsof Article , paragraph 8(c), of the Constitution ..303 Adoption of the agenda ..304 Composition of the General Committee ..605 Organization of the work of the Session ..606 Admission to the 31st Session of observers from non-governmental organizations ..607 Tribute to the Chairperson of the Executive Board ..8 IIElections08 Election of Members of the Executive of members of the Council of the unesco International Bureauof Education (IBE) ..9010 Election of members of the Intergovernmental Committee for Physical Educationand Sport (CIGEPS).

4 10011 Election of members of the International Coordinating Council of the Programmeon Man and the Biosphere (MAB) ..10012 Election of members of the Intergovernmental Council of the InternationalHydrological Programme (IHP) ..10013 Election of members of the Intergovernmental Council of the Management ofSocial Transformations (MOST) Programme ..11014 Election of members of the Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee (IGBC) ..11015 Election of members of the Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting theReturn of cultural Property to its Countries of Origin or its Restitution in Caseof Illicit Appropriation.

5 11016 Election of the members of the Executive Committee of the InternationalCampaign for the Establishment of the Nubia Museum in Aswan and theNational Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo ..12017 Election of members of the Intergovernmental Council of the InternationalProgramme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) ..12018 Election of the members of the Intergovernmental Council for the Informationfor All Programme (IFAP) ..12019 Election of members of the Governing Board of the unesco Institutefor Statistics (UIS)..13020 Composition of the Legal Committee for the 32nd Session ..13021 Composition of the Headquarters Committee until the end of the32nd Session .

6 14 IIIM edium-Term Strategy for 2002-20071 Medium-Term Strategy for 2002-2007 ..15 IVGeneral policy and Direction2 Governing bodies, Direction and Participation in the joint machinery of the United Nations system ..19 VIVP rogramme for 2002-2003 Programmes3 Major Programme I: International Bureau of Education (IBE) ..235 unesco International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) ..236 unesco Institute for Education (UIE) ..247 unesco Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) ..258 unesco International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and theCaribbean (IESALC).

7 259 unesco International Institute for Capacity-Building in Africa (IICBA) ..2610 International Conference on Education ..2611 African Academy of Languages ..2712 Revised Recommendation concerning Technical and Vocational Education (2001) ..2713 Implementation of the Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-EducationTeaching Personnel ..4014 Procedures of the Conciliation and Good Offices Commission responsible for seeking thesettlement of any disputes that may arise between States Parties to the Convention againstDiscrimination in Education ..4015 Major Programme II: Natural of the unesco -IHE Institute for Water Education.

8 4317 Establishment of the Regional Centre on Urban Water Managementin Tehran, under the auspices of of a Regional Centre for Training and Water Studiesof Arid and Semi-arid Zones, Egypt, under the auspices of unesco ..4419 Establishment of an International Centre for Synchrotron Light for ExperimentalSciences and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME) under the auspices of unesco ..4420 Proclamation of World Science Day for Peace and Development ..4521 Major Programme III: Social and human Programme: priorities and prospects ..4723 Major Programme IV: on the Protection of the Underwater cultural Heritage.

9 5025 unesco Universal Declaration on cultural Diversity ..6126 Acts constituting a crime against the common heritage of humanity ..6527 Protection of cultural heritage in the Caucasus region ..6528 Proclamation of 2004 as International Year to Commemorate theStruggle against Slavery and its Abolition ..6629 unesco s association with the World Book Capital ..6730 Preparation of a new international standard-setting instrument for thesafeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage ..6731 Jerusalem and the implementation of 30 C/Resolution 28 ..6732 Major Programme V: Communication and and use of multilingualism and universal access to cyberspace.

10 7034 Preservation of the digital heritage ..71 unesco Institute for Statistics35 unesco Institute for Statistics ..72 Participation Programme36 Participation Programme ..73 Programme related services37 Coordination of action to benefit Africa; Fellowships Programme; Public information ..7638 TheUNESCO resolutions39 Call for international cooperation to prevent and eradicate acts of terrorism ..7940 Sustainable development and the Johannesburg Summit 2002 ..8041 Admission of Tokelau as an Associate Member of the Organization ..8142 Request for the admission of Palestine to of 30 C/Resolution 54 concerning educational and culturalinstitutions in the occupied Arab territories.