United Nations
A/RES/70/125
General Assembly
Distr.: General
1 February 2016
Seventieth session
Agenda item 17
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2015
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/70/L.33)]
70/125. Outcome document of the high-level meeting
of the General Assembly on the overall review of
the implementation of the outcomes of the
World Summit on the Information Society
The General Assembly
Adopts the following outcome document of the high-level meeting of the
General Assembly on the overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of
the World Summit on the Information Society at its seventieth session:
Outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the
overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit
on the Information Society
We, the Ministers and heads of delegations participating in the high-level
plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the overall review of the
implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society,
held in New York on 15 and 16 December 2015,
Recalling the request in paragraph 111 of the Tunis Agenda for the Information
Society1 that the General Assembly undertake an overall review of the implementation of
the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society in 2015, and in this
regard reaffirming the role of the Assembly in this process, and reaffirming also that
the Assembly, in its resolution 68/302 of 31 July 2014, decided that the overall
review would be concluded by a two-day high-level meeting of the Assembly,
preceded by an intergovernmental preparatory process that also meaningfully takes
into account inputs from all relevant stakeholders,
Welcoming the constructive and diverse inputs from Governments, the private
sector, civil society, international organizations, the technical and academic
communities and all other relevant stakeholders in taking stock of the progress made
in the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information
Society and addressing potential information and communications technology gaps
and areas for continued focus, as well as challenges, including bridging digital
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See A/60/687.
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