Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Organization of la Francophonie A/RES/73/290 Welcoming the steps taken by the International Organization of la Francophonie to strengthen its ties with the organizations of the United Nations system and with international and regional organizations with a view to attaining its objectives, Affirming the importance of a balanced and effective multilateral s ystem that is representative of today’s world, one that is based upon a strong and renewed United Nations, Noting with satisfaction the commitment of the International Organization of la Francophonie to human rights, gender equality, the empowerment of women, girls and youth and their active participation in society, access to quality education and training, multilingualism and multilateral cooperation for peace, democratic governance and the rule of law, economic governance and solidarity, sustainable development and its financing, especially poverty eradication in all its forms and dimensions, protection of the environment, access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all, combating climate change, countering terrorism in all its forms and preventing and countering radicalization to terrorism, Welcoming the adoption of the Yerevan Declaration 1 at the seventeenth Summit of la Francophonie, held in Yerevan on 11 and 12 October 2018 on the theme “Living together in solidarity, with shared humanistic values and respect for diversity: a source of peace and prosperity for the French-speaking community”, and noting the decision to hold the eighteenth Summit in Tunis in 2020, Recalling the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June 2012, entitled “The future we want”, 2 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 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 manner, and to building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking to address their unfinished business, Noting with satisfaction the commitments by the member States and Governments of the International Organization of la Francophonie to the implementation of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development 3 and the Paris Agreement on climate change, 4 reaffirmed by the Heads of State and Government of countries using French as a common language at the seventeenth Summit of la Francophonie, together with an undertaking to play an active role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and a determination to implement national sustainable development strategies to make an effective contribution to eradicating poverty, to ensuring sustainable and universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy services and to protecting the environment, and noting with satisfaction also the outcome of the twenty-fourth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations __________________ 1 2 3 4 2/11 A/73/596, annex. Resolution 66/288, annex. Resolution 69/313, annex. See FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21, annex. 19-06370