Culture and sustainable development A/RES/72/229 indicators and statistics, with a view to informing development policies and relevant reports, where appropriate; 17. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that United Nations country teams continue to further integrate and mainstream culture into their programming exercises, in particular United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks, in consultation with relevant national authorities, when assisting countries in the pursuit of their development objectives; 18. Encourages all countries, intergovernmental bodies, organizations of the United Nations system, relevant non-governmental organizations and all other relevant stakeholders to give due consideration to the contribution of culture to the achievement of sustainable development in the formulation of national, regional and international development policies and international cooperation instruments, and in this regard invites the President of the General Assembly to host a one -day high-level event on this subject, within existing resources, during the seventy-third session of the Assembly, and to invite the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to support him or her, within its existing mandates; 19. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-fourth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution, and decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-fourth session, under the item entitled “Globalization and interdependence”, the sub-item entitled “Culture and sustainable development”. 74th plenary meeting 20 December 2017 17-23306 7/7

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