A/RES/72/237
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 24 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2017
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/72/425/Add.2)]
72/237.
South-South cooperation
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolution 64/222 of 21 December 2009, in which it endorsed
the Nairobi outcome document of the High-level United Nations Conference on
South-South Cooperation,
Reaffirming also its resolution 33/134 of 19 December 1978, in which it
endorsed the Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and Implementing Technical
Cooperation among Developing Countries, 1
Recalling its resolutions 57/270 B of 23 June 2003, 60/212 of 22 December
2005, 62/209 of 19 December 2007, 63/233 of 19 December 2008, 64/1 of 6 October
2009, 66/219 of 22 December 2011, 67/227 of 21 December 2012, 68/230 of
20 December 2013, 69/239 of 19 December 2014, 70/222 of 22 December 2015 and
71/244 of 21 December 2016,
Reaffirming its resolution 71/318 of 28 August 2017, on the modalities of the
Second High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation,
Reaffirming also 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 commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three
dimensions — economic, social and environmental — in a balanced and integrated
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Report of the United Nations Conference on Technical Cooperation among Developing
Countries, Buenos Aires, 30 August–12 September 1978 (United Nations publication, Sales
No. E.78.II.A.11 and corrigendum), chap. I.
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