Follow-up to the second United Nations Conference
on Landlocked Developing Countries
A/RES/72/232
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 outcome document of the United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2012, entitled “The future
we want”, 2
Welcoming the Paris Agreement 3 and its early entry into force, encouraging all
its parties to fully implement the Agreement, and parties to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change 4 that have not yet done so to deposit their
instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where appropriate, as
soon as possible,
Recalling also the Sendai Declaration and the Sendai Framework for Disaster
Risk Reduction 2015–2030, 5 while recognizing that landlocked developing countries
face some specific disaster risk challenges, and reiterating the commitment to
addressing disaster risk reduction and building resilience to disasters within the
context of sustainable development and poverty eradic ation,
Welcoming the New Urban Agenda, adopted at the United Nations Conference
on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in Quito, Ecuador,
from 17 to 20 October 2016,
Taking note of the launch of the World Customs Organization transit guidelines
at the Global Transit Conference held in Brussels in July 2017,
Welcoming the holding of the 2017 Global Infrastructure Forum, in Washington,
D.C., on 22 April 2017, on the theme “Delivering inclusive and sustainable
infrastructure”, and taking note of its outcome,
Recognizing the specific needs and special circumstances of developing country
parties, especially those that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of
climate change, as provided for in the United Nations Frame work Convention on
Climate Change,
Recognizing also that the lack of territorial access to the sea, aggravated by
remoteness from world markets and high transit costs and risks, continues to impose
serious constraints on export earnings, private capital inflow and the domestic
resource mobilization of landlocked developing countries and therefore adversely
affects their overall growth and socioeconomic development,
Recalling the Almaty Declaration 6 and the Almaty Programme of Action:
Addressing the Special Needs of Landlocked Developing Countries within a New
Global Framework for Transit Transport Cooperation for Landlocked and Transit
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Resolution 66/288, annex.
Adopted under the UNFCCC in FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.
Resolution 69/283, annexes I and II.
Report of the International Ministerial Conference of Landlocked and Transit Developing
Countries and Donor Countries and International Financial and Development Insti tutions on
Transit Transport Cooperation, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 28 and 2 9 August 2003 (A/CONF.202/3),
annex II.
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