A/RES/70/217
United Nations
Distr.: General
18 February 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 23 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2015
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/70/475/Add.2)]
70/217. Follow-up to the second United Nations Conference
on Landlocked Developing Countries
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Vienna Declaration and the Vienna Programme of Action for
Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024, 1 adopted at the
second United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries, held in
Vienna from 3 to 5 November 2014, at which all relevant stakeholders expressed
their commitment to the implementation of the Programme of Action,
Reaffirming the overarching goal of the Vienna Programme of Action of
addressing the special development needs and challenges of landlocked developing
countries arising from their landlockedness, remoteness and geographical
constraints in a more coherent manner and thus contributing to an enhanced rate of
sustainable and inclusive growth, which can contribute to the eradication of poverty
by moving towards the goal of ending extreme poverty,
Recalling its resolution 69/232 of 19 December 2014,
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
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Resolution 69/137, annexes I and II.
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