United Nations
A/RES/71/159
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 January 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 127
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 15 December 2016
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/71/L.41 and Add.1)]
71/159. Global health and foreign policy: health employment and
economic growth
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 63/33 of 26 November 2008, 64/108 of 10 December
2009, 65/95 of 9 December 2010, 66/115 of 12 December 2011, 67/81 of
12 December 2012, 68/98 of 11 December 2013, 69/132 of 11 December 2014 and
70/183 of 17 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 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
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 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 international
humanitarian law, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights 2 and the Constitution of the World Health Organization, 3
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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