A/RES/78/154 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 21 December 2023 Seventy-eighth session Agenda item 18 (e) Sustainable development: implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2023 [on the report of the Second Committee (A/78/461/Add.5, para. 7)] 78/154. 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 77/166 of 14 December 2022, 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, and 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, Recalling that, in the 2030 Agenda, the international community committed to combating desertification, restoring degraded land and soil, including land affected __________________ 1 23-25899 (E) United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1954, No. 33480. 030124 *2325899*

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