A/RES/75/218
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
29 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 19 (e)
Sustainable development: implementation of the
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in
Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or
Desertification, Particularly in Africa
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 21 December 2020
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/75/457/Add.5, para. 7)]
75/218.
Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought
and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 74/220 of 19 December 2019, as well as other
resolutions relating to the implementation of the United Nations Convention to
Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or
Desertification, Particularly in Africa, 1
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, and
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,
Recalling that, in the 2030 Agenda, the international community committed to
combating desertification, restoring degraded land and soil, includ ing land affected
__________________
1
20-17656 (E)
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1954, No. 33480.
060121
*2017656*