Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development
and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly
A/RES/71/162
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 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,
Recalling the ministerial declaration adopted at the high-level segment of the
2016 session of the Economic and Social Council on the annual theme
“Implementing the post-2015 development agenda: moving from commitments to
results” and the ministerial declaration of the 2016 high-level political forum on
sustainable development, convened under the auspices of the Council, on the theme
“Ensuring that no one is left behind”, 3
Welcoming the decision of the Economic and Social Council that the priority
theme for the 2017–2018 review and policy cycle, which shall allow the
Commission for Social Development to contribute to the work of the Council, will
be “Strategies for eradicating poverty to achieve sustainable development for all”, 4
Welcoming also the decision of the Economic and Social Council that the
Commission for Social Development will report on social aspects related to the
agreed main theme of the Council in order to contribute to its work, 5
Recalling its resolution 57/270 B of 23 June 2003 on the integrated and
coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United
Nations conferences and summits in the economic and social fields,
Recalling also its resolution 63/303 of 9 July 2009, entitled “Outcome of the
Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on
Development”,
Reaffirming that the Declaration on the Right to Development 6 also informs
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, along with other relevant
instruments, and noting with appreciation the commemoration in 2016 of the
thirtieth anniversary of its adoption,
Reaffirming also the importance of supporting the African Union’s
development framework, Agenda 2063, as well as its 10-year plan of action, as a
strategic framework for ensuring a positive socioeconomic transformation in Africa
within the next 50 years, and its continental programme embedded in the resolutions
of the General Assembly on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development 7 and
regional initiatives, such as the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development
Programme,
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3
Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/71/3), chap. V,
sect. F.
4
Economic and Social Council resolution 2016/6, para. 6.
5
Ibid., para. 3.
6
Resolution 41/128, annex.
7
A/57/304, annex.
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