United Nations
A/RES/70/191
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 February 2016
Seventieth session
Agenda item 18 (d)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2015
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/70/470/Add.4)]
70/191. Commodities
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 59/224 of 22 December 2004, 61/190 of 20 December
2006, 63/207 of 19 December 2008, 64/192 of 21 December 2009, 66/190 of
22 December 2011 and 68/203 of 20 December 2013 on commodities,
Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted by Heads
of State and Government on 8 September 2000, 1 the 2005 World Summit Outcome
adopted on 16 September 2005 2 and its resolution 60/265 of 30 June 2006 on the
follow-up to the development outcome of the 2005 World Summit, including the
Millennium Development Goals and the other internationally agreed development
goals,
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 this 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
building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking
to address their unfinished business,
Recalling implementation target 2.c under Goal 2 of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development, the aim of which is to adopt measures to ensure the
proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and to facilitate
timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help to
limit extreme food price volatility, and implementation target 9.b under Goal 9 of
the 2030 Agenda, the aim of which is to support domestic technology development,
research and innovation in developing countries, including by ensuring a conducive
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Resolution 55/2.
Resolution 60/1.
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