A/RES/77/300
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 July 2023
Seventy-seventh session
Agenda item 128
Global health and foreign policy
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 26 June 2023
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/77/L.77)]
77/300.
Mental health and psychosocial support
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, which includes targets
relating to non-communicable diseases, including reducing by one third prematur e
mortality from non-communicable diseases by 2030 through prevention and
treatment, and promoting mental health and well-being, as well as support for
research and development of vaccines and medicines, and reaffirming the Addis
Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for
Development, 1
Reaffirming also the Sustainable Development Goals, including Goal 3, on
ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages, and its specific
and interlinked targets, in particular target 3.4, which, among other things, promotes
mental health and well-being,
Reaffirming further the political declaration of the high-level meeting on
universal health coverage, entitled “Universal health coverage: moving together to
build a healthier world”, adopted on 23 September 2019, 2 which recognizes mental
health and well-being as an essential component of universal health coverage,
Reaffirming the political declaration of the third high-level meeting on the
prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, adopted on 27 September
2018, 3 which represents a review of the challenges and opportunities in the
implementation of existing commitments for the prevention and control of
non-communicable diseases and the promotion of mental healt h, which constitute a
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Resolution 69/313, annex.
Resolution 74/2.
Resolution 73/2.
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