United Nations
A/RES/71/254
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 January 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 126 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2016
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/71/L.50 and Add.1)]
71/254. Framework for a Renewed United Nations-African Union
Partnership on Africa’s Integration and Development
Agenda 2017–2027
The General Assembly,
Recalling the 2005 World Summit Outcome, 1 through which world leaders
reaffirmed their commitment to supporting the development and implementation of
a 10-year capacity-building programme for the African Union,
Recalling also the adoption of the framework for the 10-year capacity-building
programme for the African Union set out in the declaration on enhancing United
Nations-African Union cooperation, signed in Addis Ababa on 16 November 2006
by the Secretary-General and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, 2
which highlights the key areas for cooperation between the African Union and the
United Nations,
Noting that the 10-year capacity-building programme for the African Union
has since been in effect and has provided an important context for focused United
Nations support to the capacity-building efforts of the African Union,
Reaffirming the political declaration on Africa’s development needs adopted at
the high-level meeting on Africa’s development needs on 22 September 2008, 3
Reaffirming also its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled
“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which
it adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and
transformative Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to
working tirelessly for the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition
that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty,
is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable
development, its commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three
dimensions — economic, social and environmental — in a balanced and integrated
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1
Resolution 60/1.
A/61/630, annex.
3
Resolution 63/1.
2
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