A/RES/71/3 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 19 October 2016 Seventy-first session Agenda item 127 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 5 October 2016 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/71/L.2)] 71/3. Political declaration of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on antimicrobial resistance The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 70/183 of 17 December 2015 and 70/297 of 25 July 2016, in which it decided to hold a high-level meeting on antimicrobial resistance on 21 September 2016, Adopts the following political declaration approved by the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on antimicrobial resistance on 21 September 2016: Political declaration of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on antimicrobial resistance We, Heads of State and Government and representatives of States and Governments, meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 21 September 2016, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 70/183 of 17 December 2015, in which the Assembly decided to hold a high-level meeting in 2016 on antimicrobial resistance: 1. Reaffirm that the blueprint for tackling antimicrobial resistan ce is the World Health Organization global action plan on antimicrobial resistance 1 and its five overarching strategic objectives developed by the World Health Organization in collaboration with, and subsequently adopted by, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Organization for Animal Health; 2. Also reaffirm that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 2 offers a framework to ensure healthy lives, and recall commitments to fight malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, hepatitis, the Ebola virus disease and other communicable diseases and epidemics, including by addressing growing antimicrobial resistance and neglected diseases affecting developing countries in particular, while reiterating that antimicrobial resistance challenges the sustainability and effectiveness of the _______________ 1 2 World Health Organization, document WHA68/2015/REC/1, annex 3. Resolution 70/1. 16-17267 (E) *1617267* Please recycle

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