A/RES/70/214
United Nations
Distr.: General
26 February 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 22 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2015
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/70/474/Add.3)]
70/214. Culture and sustainable development
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United
Nations,
Recalling its resolutions 41/187 of 8 December 1986, 46/158 of 19 December
1991, 51/179 of 16 December 1996, 52/197 of 18 December 1997, 53/184 of
15 December 1998, 55/192 of 20 December 2000, 57/249 of 20 December 2002,
65/166 of 20 December 2010 and 66/208 of 22 December 2011, concerning culture
and development, 66/288 of 27 July 2012, entitled “The future we want”, and
68/223 of 20 December 2013 and 69/230 of 19 December 2014 on culture and
sustainable development,
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,
Reaffirming also its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa
Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for
Development, which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, supports and complements it, helps to contextualize its means of
implementation targets with concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the strong
political commitment to address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling
environment at all levels for sustainable development in the spirit of global
partnership and solidarity,
Recalling that, in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, inter alia, the
natural and cultural diversity of the world is acknowledged and it is recognized that
cultures and civilizations can contribute to, and are crucial enablers of, sustai nable
development,
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