A/RES/72/230
Development cooperation with middle-income countries
instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where appropriate, as
soon as possible,
Welcoming also 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, 3
Recalling its resolution 70/215 of 22 December 2015,
Recalling also that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes,
inter alia, that middle-income countries still face significant challenges to achieve
sustainable development and that, in order to ensure that achievements made to date
are sustained, efforts to address ongoing challenges should be strengthened through
the exchange of experiences, improved coordination and better and focused support
of the United Nations development system, the international financial institutions,
regional organizations and other stakeholders,
Reaffirming its resolution 71/243 of 21 December 2016 on the quadrennial
comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United
Nations system, in which it recognized that middle-income countries still face
specific challenges,
Taking note of the outcomes of the international conferences on development
cooperation with middle-income countries held over the past 10 years in Madrid, 4 San
Salvador, 5 Windhoek 6 and San José, 7 and noting the regional conferences held in
Cairo, in 2008, in Amman, in 2013, and in Minsk, in 2013 and 2015,
Emphasizing that cohesive, nationally owned sustainable development
strategies, supported by integrated national financing frameworks, will be at the heart
of efforts by Member States, reiterating that each country has primary respon sibility
for its own economic and social development and that the role of national policies
and development strategies cannot be overemphasized, highlighting the need to
respect each country’s policy space and leadership in the implementation of policies
for poverty eradication and sustainable development while remaining consistent with
relevant international rules and commitments, recognizing that national development
efforts need to be supported by an enabling international economic environment,
including coherent and mutually supporting world trade, monetary and financial
systems and strengthened and enhanced global economic governance, and
highlighting the fact that processes to develop and facilitate the availability of
appropriate knowledge and technologies globally, as well as capacity-building, are
also critical, including pursuing policy coherence and an enabling environment for
sustainable development at all levels and by all actors and reinvigorating the global
partnership for sustainable development and for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development,
Reaffirming that the fundamental characteristics of the operational activities for
development of the United Nations system should be, inter alia, their universal,
voluntary and grant nature, their neutrality and their multilateralism, as well as their
ability to respond to the development needs of programme countries in a flexible
manner, and that the operational activities are carried out for the benefit of programme
countries, at their request and in accordance with their own policies and priorities for
development,
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Resolution 71/256, annex.
See A/62/71-E/2007/46, annex.
See A/62/483-E/2007/90, annex.
See A/C.2/63/3, annexes I and II.
See A/C.2/68/5.
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