A/RES/72/274
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 April 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 117
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 12 April 2018
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/72/L.46)]
72/274.
Scope, modalities, format and organization of the third high-level
meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control
of non-communicable diseases
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 66/2 of 19 September 2011 containing the political
declaration of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and
control of non-communicable diseases,
Recalling also its resolution 68/300 of 10 July 2014, in which it decided to hold
a comprehensive review, in 2018, of the progress achieved in the prevention and
control of non-communicable diseases,
Recalling further resolution 66.10 of 27 May 2013 adopted by the World Health
Assembly, in which it endorsed the Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control
of Non-communicable Diseases 2013–2020, 1
Welcoming the convening of the World Health Organization Global Conference
on Non-communicable Diseases, in Montevideo from 18 to 20 October 2017, and
taking note of its outcome document, which highlights non-communicable diseases
as a sustainable development priority,
Recognizing that through the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development 2 and its Sustainable Development Goals in September 2015, Heads of
State and Government made a bold commitment to reduce by one third, by 2030,
premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and
treatment and promote mental health and well-being,
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See World Health Organization, document WHA66/2013/REC/1.
Resolution 70/1.
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