United Nations
A/RES/68/203
General Assembly
Distr.: General
21 January 2014
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 17 (d)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2013
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/68/436/Add.4)]
68/203. Commodities
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 59/224 of 22 December 2004, 61/190 of 20 December
2006, 63/207 of 19 December 2008, 64/192 of 21 December 2009 and 66/190 of
22 December 2011 on commodities,
Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted by Heads
of State and Government on 8 September 2000, 1 the 2005 World Summit Outcome
adopted on 16 September 2005 2 and its resolution 60/265 of 30 June 2006 on the
follow-up to the development outcome of the 2005 World Summit, including the
Millennium Development Goals and the other internationally agreed development
goals, the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General
Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals 3 and the outcome document of the
special event to follow up efforts made towards achieving the Millennium
Development Goals, convened by the President of the General Assembly on
25 September 2013, 4
Recalling further the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries
for the Decade 2011–2020, 5
Taking note of the targets set out in the Declaration of the World Summit on
Food Security, held in Rome from 16 to 18 November 2009, which reaffirms the
pledge to end hunger and poverty, 6
Recalling the Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its
Impact on Development and its outcome document, 7
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1
Resolution 55/2.
Resolution 60/1.
3
Resolution 65/1.
4
Resolution 68/6.
5
Report of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Istanbul, Turkey,
9–13 May 2011 (A/CONF.219/7), chap. II.
6
See Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document WSFS 2009/2.
7
Resolution 63/303, annex.
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