United Nations
A/RES/71/237
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 January 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 21 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2016
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/71/465/Add.2)]
71/237. International migration and development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 58/208 of 23 December 2003, 59/241 of 22 December
2004, 60/227 of 23 December 2005, 61/208 of 20 December 2006, 63/225 of
19 December 2008, 65/170 of 20 December 2010, 67/219 of 21 December 2012 and
69/229 of 19 December 2014 on international migration and development, its
resolution 68/4 of 3 October 2013, by which it adopted the Declaration of the High level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, its resolution 60/206 of
22 December 2005 on the facilitation and reduction of the cost of transfer of migrant
remittances, its resolutions 62/156 of 18 December 2007, 64/166 of 18 December
2009, 66/172 of 19 December 2011, 68/179 of 18 December 2013, 69/167 of
18 December 2014 and 70/147 of 17 December 2015 on the protection of migrants
and its resolution 62/270 of 20 June 2008 on the Global Forum on Migration and
Development, and recalling also chapter X of the Programme of Action of the
International Conference on Population and Development 1 and Commission on
Population and Development resolutions 2006/2 of 10 May 2006, 2 2008/1 of
11 April 2008, 3 2013/1 of 26 April 2013 4 and 2014/1 of 11 April 2014, 5
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, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions —
economic, social and environmental — in a balanced and integrated manner, and to
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1
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
2
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2006, Supplement No. 5 (E/2006/25), chap. I,
sect. B.
3
Ibid., 2008, Supplement No. 5 (E/2008/25), chap. I, sect. B.
4
Ibid., 2013, Supplement No. 5 (E/2013/25), chap. I, sect. B.
5
Ibid., 2014, Supplement No. 5 (E/2014/25), chap. I, sect. B.
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