A/RES/70/260
United Nations
Distr.: General
2 May 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 13
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 15 April 2016
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/70/L.44 and Add.1)]
70/260. Improving global road safety
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 57/309 of 22 May 2003, 58/9 of 5 November 2003,
58/289 of 14 April 2004, 60/5 of 26 October 2005, 62/244 of 31 March 2008,
64/255 of 2 March 2010, 66/260 of 19 April 2012 and 68/269 of 10 April 2014 on
improving global road safety,
Having considered the note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report on
improving global road safety 1 and the recommendations contained therein,
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 this 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 manner, and to
building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking
to address their unfinished business,
Reaffirming also 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 m eans 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 solidarity,
Recalling that the Sustainable Development Goals and targets are integrated
and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development, and
acknowledging the importance of reaching the road safety-related targets, such as
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