A/RES/75/231
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 24 (b)
Eradication of poverty and other development issues:
industrial development cooperation
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 21 December 2020
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/75/462/Add.2, para. 7)]
75/231.
Industrial development cooperation
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 49/108 of 19 December 1994, 51/170 of 16 December
1996, 53/177 of 15 December 1998, 55/187 of 20 December 2000, 57/243 of
20 December 2002, 59/249 of 22 December 2004, 61/215 of 20 December 2006,
63/231 of 19 December 2008, 65/175 of 20 December 2010, 67/225 of 21 December
2012, 69/235 of 19 December 2014, 71/242 of 21 December 2016 and 73/247 of
20 December 2018,
Recalling also the outcomes of all major United Nations conferences and
summits in the economic, social, environmental and related fields,
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 71/243 of 21 December 2016 on the quadrennial
comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United
Nations system and its general guidelines and principles, as well as its resolution
72/279 of 31 May 2018, and welcoming the ongoing efforts of the Secretary-General
to better position the United Nations operational activities for development to support
countries in their efforts to implement the 2030 Agenda,
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