A/RES/70/217
Follow-up to the second United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries
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 spir it of global
partnership and solidarity,
Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 2
Recalling also the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development, held in 2012, entitled “The future we want”, 3
Recalling further the Sendai Declaration and Sendai Framework for Disaster
Risk Reduction 2015–2030, 4 while recognizing that landlocked developing countries
face some specific disaster risk challenges, and reiterating the commitment to
addressing disaster risk reduction and building resilience to disasters within the
context of sustainable development and poverty eradication,
Recalling the Almaty Declaration 5 and the Almaty Programme of Action:
Addressing the Special Needs of Landlocked Developing Countries within a New
Global Framework for Transit Transport Cooperation for Landlocked and Transit
Developing Countries, 6
Recognizing that the lack of territorial access to the sea, aggravated by
remoteness from world markets and high transit costs and risks, continues to impose
serious constraints on export earnings, private capital inflow and domestic resource
mobilization of landlocked developing countries and therefore adversely affects
their overall growth and socioeconomic development,
Recognizing also that the primary responsibility for establishing effective
transit systems rests with landlocked and transit developing countries,
Acknowledging the importance of promoting collaboration between landlocked
developing countries and transit countries on the basis of common interest, and
noting that collaboration efforts need to be supported by an enabling international
economic environment, taking into account different national realities, capacities
and levels of development and respecting national priorities,
Recognizing the need to promote both public and private investment in energy
infrastructure and clean energy technologies, as well as the special vulnerabilities
and needs of landlocked developing countries,
Stressing the importance of the contribution of landlocked developing
countries to Expo 2015, held in Milan, Italy, from 1 May to 31 October 2015 on the
theme “Feeding the planet, energy for life”, and of the effective participation of
landlocked developing countries in the activities of the United Nations Decade of
Sustainable Energy for All, including the Sustainable Energy for All initiative, and
in Expo 2017, which will be held in Astana and which will focus on the theme
“Future energy”,
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2
Resolution 55/2.
Resolution 66/288, annex.
4
Resolution 69/283, annexes I and II.
5
Report of the International Ministerial Conference of Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and
Donor Countries and International Financial and Development Institutions on Transit Transport
Cooperation, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 28 and 29 August 2003 (A/CONF.202/3), annex II.
6
Ibid., annex I.
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