A/RES/73/220
International financial system and development
increase and a financial sustainability framework, and acknowledging als o that, in
October 2016, the Chinese renminbi officially became the fifth currency in the special
drawing rights basket, pursuant to the decision taken by the Executive Board of the
Fund in November 2015,
1.
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General; 11
2.
Recognizes the need to continue and intensify efforts to enhance the
coherence and consistency of the international monetary, financial and trading systems,
reiterates the importance of ensuring their openness, fairness and inclusiveness in
order to complement national efforts to ensure sustainable development, including
strong, sustained, balanced, inclusive and equitable economic growth, and that all
men and women, in particular the poor and vulnerable, have equal rights to economic
resources and appropriate financial services, and the achievement of the
internationally agreed development goals, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, 12 and encourages the international financial institutions to align their
programmes and policies with the 2030 Agenda in accordance with their mandates;
3.
Notes that the United Nations, on the basis of its universal membership
and legitimacy, provides a unique and key forum for discussing international
economic issues and their impact on development, and reaffirms that the United
Nations is well positioned to participate in various reform processes aimed at
improving and strengthening the effective functioning of the international financial
system and architecture, while recognizing that the United Na tions and the
international financial institutions have complementary mandates that make the
coordination of their actions crucial;
4.
Recognizes the important efforts undertaken nationally, regionally and
internationally to respond to the challenges posed by the latest global financial and
economic crisis, and also recognizes that more needs to be done in order to promote
the economic recovery, to manage the consequences of volatility in global financial
and commodity markets, to tackle high unemployment and indebtedness in several
countries, as well as widespread fiscal strains, to reinforce the banking sector,
including by increasing its transparency and accountability, to address systemic
fragilities and imbalances, to reform and strengthen the international financial system
and to continue and to enhance the coordination of financial and economic policies at
the international level;
5.
Stresses the critical importance of a stable, inclusive and enabling global
economic environment for the advancement of sustainable development, for the
reliable and effective financing of development and for the implementation of the
2030 Agenda, mobilizing public and private, as well as domestic and international
resources;
6.
Reiterates that debtors and creditors must work together in a transparent
manner to prevent and resolve unsustainable debt situations and that maintaining
sustainable debt levels is the responsibility of the borrowing countries, acknowledging,
however, that lenders also have a responsibility to lend in a way that does not
undermine a country’s debt sustainability, and in this regard takes note of the United
Nations Conference on Trade and Development principles on responsible sovereign
lending and borrowing and recognizes the applicable requireme nts of the International
Monetary Fund debt limits policy and/or the World Bank non-concessional borrowing
policy, as well as the safeguards of the Development Assistance Committee of the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in its statist ical system to
enhance the debt sustainability of recipient countries, and will work towards a global
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