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
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World Health Organization, document WHA68/2015/REC/1, annex 3.
Resolution 70/1.
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