A/HRC/17/2 9. Takes note of the report of the independent expert in the field of cultural rights, in which she focused on the right of access to and enjoyment of cultural heritage;15 10. Also takes note of the work conducted by the independent expert, including the questionnaire on access to cultural heritage, as well as the holding of an experts’ meeting on the right of access to and enjoyment of cultural heritage, on 8 and 9 February 2011, and a public consultation in Geneva on 10 February 2011; 11. Reiterates its call upon all Governments to cooperate with and assist the independent expert in the discharge of her mandate, to provide her with all the necessary information requested by her and to give serious consideration to responding favourably to her requests to visit their countries in order to enable her to fulfil her duties effectively; 12. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide all the human and financial resources necessary for the effective fulfilment of the mandate by the independent expert; 13. Requests the independent expert to present her next report to the Human Rights Council at its twentieth session, and decides to consider the report under the same agenda item in accordance with its programme of work. 34th meeting 17 June 2011 [Adopted without a vote.] 17/16 Promotion of the right of peoples to peace The Human Rights Council, Recalling all previous resolutions on the promotion of the right of peoples to peace adopted by the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council, Recalling also General Assembly resolution 39/11 of 12 November 1984 entitled “Declaration of the Right of Peoples to Peace” and the United Nations Millennium Declaration, Determined to foster strict respect for the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, Recalling the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 53/243 of 13 September 1999, as well as Assembly resolution 53/25 of 10 November 1998, in which the Assembly proclaimed the period 2001–2010 as the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World, Bearing in mind that one of the purposes of the United Nations is to achieve international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character, and to promote and encourage respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction of race, sex, language or religion, Underlining, in accordance with the purposes and principles of the United Nations, its full and active support for the Organization and the enhancement of its role and 15 GE.12-13630 A/HRC/17/38. 43