United Nations
A/RES/71/229
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 February 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 19 (e)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2016
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/71/463/Add.5)]
71/229. Implementation of the United Nations Convention
to Combat Desertification in Those Countries
Experiencing Serious Drought and/or
Desertification, Particularly in Africa
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 70/206 of 22 December 2015, as well as other
resolutions relating to the implementation of the United Nations Convention to
Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or
Desertification, Particularly in Africa, 1
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
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 Financi ng 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 solidarity,
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1954, No. 33480.
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