A/RES/68/304
United Nations
Distr.: General
17 September 2014
General Assembly
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 14
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 9 September 2014
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/68/L.57/Rev.1)]
68/304. Towards the establishment of a multilateral legal
framework for sovereign debt restructuring processes
The General Assembly,
Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration, adopted on 8 September
2000, 1 and the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the
Millennium Development Goals and its outcome document,2
Recalling also the 2005 World Summit Outcome 3 and the follow-up to the
development outcome of the 2005 World Summit, including the Millennium
Development Goals and the other internationally agreed development goals,4
Recalling further the International Conference on Financing for Development
and its outcome document,5 in which sustainable debt financing is recognized as an
important element for mobilizing resources for public and private investment, and
the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review
the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus and its outcome document, the
Doha Declaration on Financing for Development, 6 as well as General Assembly
resolution 68/204 of 20 December 2013,
Recalling its resolution 68/279 of 30 June 2014 on the convening of the third
International Conference on Financing for Development to assess the progress made
in the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus and the Doha Declaration,
reinvigorate and strengthen the financing for development follow-up process,
identify obstacles and constraints encountered in the achievement of the goals and
objectives agreed therein, as well as actions and initiatives to overcome these
constraints, and address new and emerging issues, including in the context of the
recent multilateral efforts to promote international development cooperation, taking
into account the current evolving development cooperation landscape, the
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1
Resolution 55/2.
Resolution 65/1.
3
Resolution 60/1.
4
Resolution 60/265.
5
Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18–22 March
2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
6
Resolution 63/239, annex.
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