A/RES/75/317
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
1 September 2021
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 14
Integrated and coordinated implementation of and
follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations
conferences and summits in the economic, social and
related fields
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 30 August 2021
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/75/L.125 and A/75/L.125/Add.1)]
75/317.
World Wetlands Day
The General Assembly,
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 su stainable development, and
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 resolutions 53/199 of 15 December 1998 and 61/185 of
20 December 2006 on the proclamation of international years, and Economic and
Social Council resolution 1980/67 of 25 July 1980 on international years and
anniversaries, particularly paragraphs 1 to 10 of the annex thereto on the agreed
criteria for the proclamation of international years, as well as paragraphs 13 and 14,
in which it is stated that an international day or year should not be proclaimed before
the basic arrangements for its organization and financing have been made,
Reaffirming further that wetlands are critical to people and nature, given the
intrinsic value of these ecosystems, and their benefits and services, including their
environmental, climate, ecological, social, economic, scientific, educational, cultural,
recreational and aesthetic contributions to sustainable development and human well being,
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