A/RES/72/235
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 23 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2017
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/72/424/Add.3)]
72/235.
Human resources development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 52/196 of 18 December 1997, 54/211 of 22 December
1999, 56/189 of 21 December 2001, 58/207 of 23 December 2003, 60/211 of
22 December 2005, 62/207 of 19 December 2007, 64/218 of 21 December 2009,
66/217 of 22 December 2011, 68/228 of 20 December 2013 and 70/220 of
22 December 2015,
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 this 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 se eking
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,
Stressing that human resources development lies at the heart of economic, social
and environmental development and that health and education are at the core of
human resources development,
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