A/RES/72/232
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 22 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2017
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/72/423/Add.2)]
72/232.
Follow-up to the second United Nations Conference on Landlocked
Developing Countries
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Vienna Declaration and the Vienna Programme of Action for
Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024, adopted at the second
United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries, held in Vienna
from 3 to 5 November 2014, 1 at which all relevant stakeholders expressed their
commitment to the implementation of the Programme of Action,
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 70/197 of 22 December 2015 and 71/239 of
21 December 2016,
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 wor king 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 develo pment, 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, annexes I and II.
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