A/RES/72/233 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 30 January 2018 Seventy-second session Agenda item 23 (a) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2017 [on the report of the Second Committee (A/72/424/Add.1)] 72/233. Implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 71/241 of 21 December 2016 and all other resolutions related to the eradication of poverty, 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 wor king 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 develo pment, 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, Reaffirming also its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, supports and complements it, helps to contextualize its means of 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 spirit of global partnership and solidarity, Welcoming the Paris Agreement 1 and its early entry into force, encouraging all its parties to fully implement the Agreement, and parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 2 that have not yet done so to deposit their __________________ 1 2 17-23311 (E) Adopted under the UNFCCC in FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21. United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822. 020218 *1723311*

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