A/RES/75/228
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 23 (b)
Groups of countries in special situations: follow-up to
the second United Nations Conference on Landlocked
Developing Countries
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 21 December 2020
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/75/461/Add.2, para. 7)]
75/228.
Follow-up to the second United Nations Conference on Landlocked
Developing Countries
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Vienna Declaration,1 the Vienna Programme of Action for
Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–20242 and the Political
Declaration of the High-level Midterm Review on the Implementation of the Vienna
Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024,3
Reaffirming the overarching goal of the Vienna Programme of Action of
addressing the special development needs and challenges of landlocked developing
countries arising from their landlockedness, remoteness and geographical constraints
in a more coherent manner and thus contributing to an enhanced rate of sustainable
and inclusive growth, which can contribute to the eradication of poverty in all its
forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty,
Recalling its resolutions 71/239 of 21 December 2016, 72/232 of 20 December
2017, 73/243 of 20 December 2018 and 74/233 of 19 December 2019,
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
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Resolution 69/137, annex I.
Ibid., annex II.
Resolution 74/15.
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