United Nations
A/RES/70/128
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 February 2016
Seventieth session
Agenda item 28 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/70/481)]
70/128. Cooperatives in social development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 47/90 of 16 December 1992, 49/155 of 23 December
1994, 51/58 of 12 December 1996, 54/123 of 17 December 1999, 56/114 of
19 December 2001, 58/131 of 22 December 2003, 60/132 of 16 December 2005,
62/128 of 18 December 2007, 64/136 of 18 December 2009, 65/184 of 21 December
2010, 66/123 of 19 December 2011 and 68/133 of 18 December 2013 concerning
cooperatives in social development,
Recognizing that cooperatives, in their various forms, promote the fullest
possible participation in the economic and social development of all people,
including women, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities and indigenous
peoples, are becoming a significant factor of economic and social development and
contribute to the eradication of poverty and hunger,
Recognizing also the important contribution and potential of all forms of
cooperatives to the follow-up to the World Summit for Social Development, the
Fourth World Conference on Women and the second United Nations Conference on
Human Settlements (Habitat II), including their five-year reviews, the World Food
Summit, the Second World Assembly on Ageing, the International Conference on
Financing for Development, the World Summit on Sustainable Development and the
United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda,
Welcoming the adoption of the outcome document of the United Nations
summit, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development”, 1 and the Addis Abаba Action Agenda of the Third International
Conference on Financing for Development, 2 and noting the acknowledgement
therein of the role of cooperatives in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and in
relation to financing for development,
Noting with appreciation the potential role of cooperative development in the
improvement of the social and economic conditions of indigenous peoples and rural
communities,
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Resolution 70/1.
Resolution 69/313, annex.
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