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South-South cooperation
manner, and to building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development
Goals and seeking to address their unfinished business,
Reaffirming further its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa
Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development,
which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, supports
and complements it, helps to contextualize its means of implementation targets with
concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the strong political commitment to
address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling environment at all levels
for sustainable development in the spirit of global partnership and solidarit y,
Recalling its resolution 69/283 of 3 June 2015 on the Sendai Framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030,
Welcoming the Paris Agreement 2 and its early entry into force, encouraging all
its parties to fully implement the Agreement, and parties to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change 3 that that have not yet done so to deposit
their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where
appropriate, as soon as possible,
Welcoming also the convening of the twenty-third session of the Conference of
the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the
thirteenth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the
Parties to the Kyoto Protocol and the second part of the first session of the Conference
of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement, held in
Bonn, Germany, from 6 to 17 November 2017,
Welcoming further the New Urban Agenda, adopted at the United Nations
Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in
Quito, Ecuador, from 17 to 20 October 2016, 4
Welcoming the convening of the first preparatory symposium for the 2018
Development Cooperation Forum, hosted by the Government of Argentina, from 6 to
8 September 2017, with the support of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs
of the Secretariat, on the theme “South-South and triangular cooperation for achieving
the 2030 Agenda. Building innovative and inclusive partnerships”,
Noting that 2018 will mark the commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of
the adoption of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action,
Recognizing that, since the adoption of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action, South South cooperation has intensified significantly, achieving a prominent level of
institutionalization, increasingly engaging national and international players,
fostering regional integration and strengthening its contribution to sustainable
development in its three dimensions,
Recognizing also that South-South cooperation is increasingly critical to
bolstering the productive capacities of developing countries and has positive impacts
on trade and financial flows, technological capabilities and economic growth, and
reiterating the importance of global partnerships,
Reiterating the pledge that no one will be left behind, reaffirming the
recognition that the dignity of the human person is fundamental, and the wish to see
the Goals and targets met for all nations and peoples and for all se gments of society,
and recommitting to endeavour to reach the furthest behind first,
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