United Nations
A/RES/71/215
General Assembly
Distr.: General
25 January 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 17 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2016
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/71/461/Add.2)]
71/215. International financial system and development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 55/186 of 20 December 2000 and 56/181 of
21 December 2001, entitled “Towards a strengthened and stable internati onal
financial architecture responsive to the priorities of growth and development,
especially in developing countries, and to the promotion of economic and social
equity”, as well as its resolutions 57/241 of 20 December 2002, 58/202 of
23 December 2003, 59/222 of 22 December 2004, 60/186 of 22 December 2005,
61/187 of 20 December 2006, 62/185 of 19 December 2007, 63/205 of 19 December
2008, 64/190 of 21 December 2009, 65/143 of 20 December 2010, 66/187 of
22 December 2011, 67/197 of 21 December 2012, 68/201 of 20 December 2013,
69/206 of 19 December 2014 and 70/188 of 22 December 2015,
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
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 creat ing an enabling
environment at all levels for sustainable development in the spirit of global
partnership and solidarity,
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