A/RES/75/212
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
29 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 19 (a)
Sustainable development: towards the achievement of
sustainable development: implementation of the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including
through sustainable consumption and production, building
on Agenda 21
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 21 December 2020
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/75/457/Add.1, para. 14)]
75/212.
United Nations Conference on the Midterm Comprehensive
Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the
International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable
Development”, 2018–2028
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 71/222 of 21 December 2016, by which it proclaimed
the period from 2018 to 2028 the International Decade for Action, “Water for
Sustainable Development”,
Recalling also its resolution 73/226 of 20 December 2018 on the midterm
comprehensive review of the implementation of the International Decade for Action,
“Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018–2028,
Recalling further Economic and Social Council resolutions 1980/67 of 25 July
1980 on international years and anniversaries and 1989/84 of 24 May 1989 on
guidelines for international decades in economic and social fields and General
Assembly resolutions 53/199 of 15 December 1998 and 61/185 of 20 December 2006
on the proclamation of international years,
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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