A/RES/74/233
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 21 (b)
Groups of countries in special situations: follow-up to the
second United Nations Conference on Landlocked
Developing Countries
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2019
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/74/383/Add.2)]
74/233.
Follow-up to the second United Nations Conference on Landlocked
Developing Countries
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Vienna Declaration 1 and the Vienna Programme of Action for
Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024, 2
Reaffirming the overarching goal of the Vienna Programme of Action of
addressing the special development needs and challenges of landlocked developing
countries arising from their landlockedness, remoteness and geographical constraints
in a more coherent manner and thus contributing to an enhanced rate of sustainable
and inclusive growth, which can contribute to the eradication of poverty in all its
forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty,
Recalling its resolutions 71/239 of 21 December 2016, 72/232 of 20 December
2017 and 73/243 of 20 December 2018,
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developme nt”, 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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Resolution 69/137, annex I.
Ibid., annex II.
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