A/RES/70/218
Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017)
among other things, for improved coordination and better and focused support of the
United Nations development system,
Reaffirming the importance of supporting Agenda 2063 of the African Union,
as well as its 10-year plan of action, as a strategic framework for ensuring a posit ive
socioeconomic transformation in Africa within the next 50 years, its continental
programme embedded in the resolutions of the General Assembly on the New
Partnership for Africa’s Development, and regional initiatives, such as the
Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme,
Recalling its resolution 60/265 of 30 June 2006 on the follow-up to the
development outcome of the 2005 World Summit, including the Millennium
Development Goals and the other internationally agreed development goals, its
resolution 63/303 of 9 July 2009, entitled “Outcome of the Conference on the World
Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development”, its resolution 65/1
of 22 September 2010 on the outcome document of the High -level Plenary Meeting
of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals and its resolution
68/6 of 9 October 2013 on the outcome document of the special event to follow up
efforts made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals,
Taking note with appreciation of Economic and Social Council resolution
2011/37 of 28 July 2011, entitled “Recovering from the world financial and
economic crisis: a Global Jobs Pact”, of the ministerial declaration adopted at the
high-level segment of the 2012 session of the Council, 8 which called for increased
efforts to enhance coordination at all levels with a view to strengthening national
development strategies, investing in productive capacities, helping to start and grow
business and promoting opportunities for full and productive employm ent and
decent work for all, and of the integration segment of the 2015 session of the
Council, which was convened under the theme “Achieving sustainable development
through employment creation and decent work for all”,
Recalling the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing
for Development 9 and the Doha Declaration on Financing for Development: outcome
document of the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development
to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, 10
Reaffirming 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 this 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 manner, and to
building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking
to address their unfinished business,
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/67/3/Rev.1),
chap. IV, sect. F.
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Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico,
18–22 March 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
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Resolution 63/239, annex.
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