United Nations
A/RES/71/162
General Assembly
Distr.: General
20 January 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 26
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2016
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/71/476)]
71/162. Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit
for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth
special session of the General Assembly
The General Assembly,
Recalling the World Summit for Social Development, held in Copenhagen
from 6 to 12 March 1995, and the twenty-fourth special session of the General
Assembly, entitled “World Summit for Social Development and beyond: achieving
social development for all in a globalizing world”, held in Geneva from 26 June to
1 July 2000,
Reaffirming that the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the
Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development 1 and the further
initiatives for social development adopted by the General Assembly at its twenty fourth special session,2 as well as a continued global dialogue on social development
issues, constitute the basic framework for the promotion of social development for
all at the national and international levels,
Welcoming the progress made towards the full implementation of the
Copenhagen Declaration and the Programme of Action through concerted action at
the national, regional and global levels, and expressing its deep concern that, more
than 20 years after the convening of the World Summit for Social Development,
progress has been slow and uneven, and major gaps remain,
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
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1
Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
2
Resolution S-24/2, annex.
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