A/RES/73/240
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 22 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2018
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/73/540/Add.1)]
73/240.
Towards a New International Economic Order
The General Assembly,
Bearing in mind the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations
to promote the economic advancement and social progress of all peoples,
Recalling the principles of the Declaration on the Establishment of a New
International Economic Order and the Programme of Action on the Establishment of
a New International Economic Order, as set out in resolutions 3201 (S -VI) and 3202
(S-VI), respectively, adopted by the General Assembly at its sixth special session, on
1 May 1974,
Recalling also its resolutions 63/224 of 19 December 2008, 64/209 of
21 December 2009, 65/167 of 20 December 2010, 67/217 of 21 December 2012,
69/227 of 19 December 2014 and 71/236 of 21 December 2016,
Reaffirming the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 1
Recalling the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the
Millennium Development Goals and its outcome document, 2
Recalling also the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”, 3
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
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Resolution 55/2.
Resolution 65/1.
Resolution 66/288, annex.
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