Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development
and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly
A/RES/69/143
Recalling further its resolution 63/303 of 9 July 2009 entitled “Outcome of the
Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on
Development”,
Welcoming the decision of the Economic and Social Council that the priority
theme for the 2015–2016 review and policy cycle of the Commission for Social
Development shall be “Rethinking and strengthening social development in the
contemporary world”, 7
Recalling the ministerial declaration adopted at the high-level segment of the
substantive session of 2012 of the Economic and Social Council, entitled
“Promoting productive capacity, employment and decent work to eradicate poverty
in the context of inclusive, sustainable and equitable economic growth at all levels
for achieving the Millennium Development Goals”, 8
Recalling also the ministerial declaration adopted at the high-level segment of
the substantive session of 2013 of the Economic and Social Council, entitled
“Science, technology and innovation, and the potential of culture, for promoting
sustainable development and achieving the Millennium Development Goals”, 9
Recalling further the ministerial declaration adopted at the high-level segment
of the 2014 session of the Economic and Social Council on the theme “Addressing
ongoing and emerging challenges for meeting the Millennium Development Goals
in 2015 and for sustaining development gains in the future”, 10
Noting that the decent work agenda of the International Labour Organization,
with its four strategic objectives, has an important role to play in achieving the
objective of full and productive employment and decent work for all, including its
objective of social protection, as reaffirmed in the International Labour
Organization Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization, 11 in which the
particular role of the Organization in promoting fair globalization and its
responsibility to assist its members in their efforts were acknowledged, as well as in
the Global Jobs Pact,
Emphasizing the need to enhance the role of the Commission for Social
Development in the follow-up to and review of the World Summit for Social
Development and the outcome of the twenty-fourth special session of the General
Assembly, welcoming the views of the Commission, as discussed at its fifty-first
and fifty-second sessions, in the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda,
and looking forward to the views of the Commission on the ongoing discussions on
the post-2015 development agenda,
Recalling its resolution 68/309 of 10 September 2014, in which it welcomed
the report of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Developments Goals 12 and
decided that the proposal of the Open Working Group contained in the report shall
be the main basis for integrating sustainable development goals into the post-2015
development agenda, while recognizing that other inputs will also be considered, in
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7
See Economic and Social Council resolution 2014/3.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/67/3/Rev.1),
chap. IV, sect. F.
9
Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/68/3/Rev.1), chap. VI, sect. E.
10
Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/69/3/Rev.1), chap. VI, sect. F.
11
A/63/538-E/2009/4, annex.
12
A/68/970 and Corr.1.
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