A/RES/72/141
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 27 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2017
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/72/431)]
72/141.
Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social
Development and of the twenty-fourth special session
of the General Assembly
The General Assembly,
Recalling the World Summit for Social Development, held in Copenhagen from
6 to 12 March 1995, and the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly,
entitled “World Summit for Social Development and beyond: achieving social
development for all in a globalizing world”, held in Geneva from 26 June to 1 July
2000,
Reaffirming that the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the
Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development 1 and the further
initiatives for social development adopted by the General Assembly at its twenty fourth special session, 2 as well as a continued global dialogue on social development
issues, constitute the basic framework for the promotion of social devel opment for all
at the national and international levels,
Welcoming the progress made towards the full implementation of the
Copenhagen Declaration and the Programme of Action through concerted action at
the national, regional and global levels, and expre ssing its deep concern that, more
than 20 years after the convening of the World Summit for Social Development,
progress has been slow and uneven, and major gaps remain,
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
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Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United
Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
Resolution S-24/2, annex.
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