Records of the General Conference Twentieth …

1 Optical Character Recognition (OCR) document. WARNING! Spelling errors might subsist. In order to access to the original document in image form, click on "Original" button on 1st page. Records of the General Conference Twentieth Session Paris, 24 October to 28 November 1978. Original Volume I. Resolutions united nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Optical Character Recognition (OCR) document. WARNING! Spelling errors might subsist. In order to access to the original document in image form, click on "Original" button on 1st page. Note on the Records of the General Conference The Records of the Twentieth session of the General Conference are printed in three volumes: The present volume, containing the resolutions adopted by the General Conference and the list of officers of the General Conference and of the Commissions and Committees (Volume 1);. The volume Reports, which contains the reports of the Programme Commissions, the Administrative Commission and the Legal Committee (Volume 2).

2 The volume of Proceedings, which contains the verbatim Records of plenary meetings and the list of participants (Volume 3). Note on the numbering of resolutions The resolutions have been numbered serially. It is recommended that references to resolutions be made in one of the following forms: Resolution 3 [or resolution '1 adopted by the General Conference at its Twentieth session'; or 2OC/Resolution 3 ' [or 20C/Resolution ']. Published in 1979 by the united nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 7 Place de Fontenoy, 75700 Paris Printed by Imprimerie des Presses Universitaires de France, Vend6me ISBN 92-3-101703-9. Arabic edition: 92-3-601703-7. Chinese edition: 92-3-501703-3. French edition: 92-3-201703-2. Russian edition: 92-3-401703-X. Spanish edition: 92-3-301703-6. Unesco 1979 Printed in France Optical Character Recognition (OCR) document. WARNING! Spelling errors might subsist. In order to access to the original document in image form, click on "Original" button on 1st page.]

3 CORRIGENDUM. Page 16 - Election of members of the Executive Board Insert the following resolution and renumber the previous resolution The General Conference ,I. Considering that, since the adoption, at its nineteenth session, of resolution concerning the grouping of Member States for elections to the Executive Board, the States listed below have become Members of Unesco: Angola, Cape Verde, Comoros, Namibia, Swaziland Considering that these Member States should therefore be distributed among the electoral groups established by the General Conference at its fifteenth session and modified at its seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth sessions, Decides (a) to add Angola to Group V. (b) to add Cape Verde to Group V. (c) to add the Comoros to Group V. (d) to add Namibia to Group V. (e) to add Swaziland to Group V. 1. Resolution adopted on the report of the Nominations Committee at the twenty-eighth plenary meeting, on 20 November 1978. Page 111 Resolution 7/12, paragraph 4(b), for 1981-1982 read 1981-1983.

4 Page 127 Resolution , paragraph 2(c), for 1983-1989 read 19841989. Page 135 Resolution , paragraph 3(a), for mutual equality and interest read mutual interest and equality. Page 140 Resolution , paragraph 2, for resolution 7/5 .l read resolution 7/5 1. Page 164 Resolution , paragraph 2. for Article II of the statutes read Article 11 (or 2) of the statutes. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) document. WARNING! Spelling errors might subsist. In order to access to the original document in image form, click on "Original" button on 1st page. Contents I Organization of the session, admission of new Member States, election of members of the Executive Board and tribute to Mr Leonard C. J. Martin Credentials.. 9. Communications received from Member States invoking the provisions of Article , paragraph 8(c), of the Constitution .. 10. Adoption of the agenda .. 11. Composition of the General Committee .. 14. Organization of the work of the session .. 15. Admission to the Twentieth session of observers from international non-governmental organizations.

5 15. Admission of new Member States .. 15. Election of members of the Executive Board .. 16. Tribute to .. 16. II Adjustments to the Medium-Term Plan (1977-1982). Adjustments to the Medium-Term Plan for 1977-1982 (2OC/4) (Resolutions 100 to 105).. 17. III Programme for 1979-1980. 1 Education .. 23. General resolution.. 23. Objective : Respect for human rights .. 24. Objective : Appreciation of and respect for cultural identity .. 26. Objectives & : Status of women and participation of women in development .. 26. Objective : Aid to refugees and national liberation movements .. 27. Objectives & : Education and information concerning human rights, peace and international understanding.. 27. Objective : Scientific and technological research and training .. 28. Objective : General science and technology education .. 28. Objective : Educational policies.. 29. Objective : Educational administration.. 29. Objective : Educational structures.. 30. Objective : Educational content, methods and techniques.

6 30. International Charter of Physical Education and Sport.. 31. Statutes of the Intergovernmental Committee for Physical Education and Sport .. 34. Objective : Training of educational personnel.. 38. Objective : Adult education .. 39. Objective : The role of higher education in society.. 39. Objective : Struggle against illiteracy.. 41. Objective : Integrated rural development.. 42. Objective : Problems of social disharmony .. 42. Objective : Education and information relating to the environment .. 43. Objective : Population.. 43. Objective : Information systems and services .. 43. International Bureau of Education.. 44. IntemationaI Institute for Educational Planning.. 44. 2 Natural sciences and their application to development .. 45. General resolutions .. 45. Objective : Science and society .. 47. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) document. WARNING! Spelling errors might subsist. In order to access to the original document in image form, click on "Original" button on 1st page.

7 Objective : Science and technology policies.. 48. Objective : Scientific and technological research and training .. 48. Objective : General science and technology education .. 49. Objective : Integrated rural development.. 49. Objective : Mineral and energy resources.. 49. Objective : Terrestrial biological resources .. 50. Objective : Water resources .. 52. Objective : Ocean and coastal marine systems .. 54. Objective : Environment and human settlements .. 56. Objective : Preservation and presentation of the cultural and natural heritage.. 56. Objective : Education and information relating to the environment .. 56. Objective : Information systems and services .. 56. 3 Social sciences and their applicat!ons .. 57. General resolutions .. 57. Objective : Respect for human rights .. 60. Declaration on race and racial prejudice .. 61. Objective : Appreciation and respect for cultural identity.. 61. Objectives & : Status of women and participation of women in development.

8 61. Objectives & : Education and information concerning human rights, peace and international understanding.. 67. Objective : Peace research .. 70. Objective : Role of international law and international organizations .. 70. Objective : Global interpretation of development .. 70. Objective : Endogenous and diversified development.. 71. Objective : Infrastructures and programmes in the social sciences .. 72. Objective : Socio-economic analysis .. 72. Objective : Science and society .. 73. Objective : Integrated rural development.. 73. Objective : Role of youth in education, social and cultural activity .. 74. Objective : Social disharmony .. 74. Objective : Terrestrial biological resources .. 74. Objective : Environment and human settlements .. 75. Objective : Education and information relating to the environment .. 75. Objective : Population.. 76. Objective : Process and role of communication .. 77. Objective : Information systems and services.. 77. 4 Culture and communication.

9 77. General resolution.. 17. Objective : Respect for human rights .. 80. Objective : Appreciation and respect for cultural identity.. 80. Objectives & : Status of women and participation of women in development.. 85. Objective : Participation in cultural life .. 86. Objective : Artistic and intellectual creativity .. 89. Objective : Integrated rural development.. 90. Objective : Preservation and presentation of thecultural andnatural heritage.. 90. Objective : Flow of information and international exchanges .. 99. Objective : Process and role of communication .. 100. Declaration on fundamental principles concerning the contribution of the mass media to strengthening peace and international understanding, to the promotion of human rights and to countering racialism, apartheid and incitement to war.. loo Objective : Policies, infrastructures and training in the field of communication .. 104. Objective : Information systems and services.. 105. 5 Copyright, information systems and services, statistics.

10 105. Objective : Copyright .. 105. Objective : Information systems and services.. 106. Objective : Statistics .. 107. 6 Programme supporting services.. 108. Unesco Library, Archives and Documentation Services.. 108. Office of the Unesco Press .. 108. Office of Public Information .. 109. 7 Co-operation for development and external relations.. 110. Country approach and regional co-operation .. 110. Operational support services .. 112. Co-operation with international governmental and non-governmental organizations and pro- grammes .. 113. Co-operation with National Commissions .. 115. Charter of National Commissions for Unesco.. 116. Participation programme.. 119. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) document. WARNING! Spelling errors might subsist. In order to access to the original document in image form, click on "Original" button on 1st page. IV Budget 8 Appropriation resolution for 1979-1980 .. _ .. _ . 122. V General resolutions 9 Unesco's contribution to the establishment of a new international economic order.