A/RES/75/263
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
5 March 2021
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 14
Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up
to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and
summits in the economic, social and related fields
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 3 March 2021
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/75/L.63 and A/75/L.63/Add.1)]
75/263.
International Year of Millets, 2023
The General Assembly,
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
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions – economic,
social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner, and to building upon
the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking to address their
unfinished business,
Reaffirming also its resolutions 53/199 of 15 December 1998 and 61/185 of
20 December 2006 on the proclamation of international years, and Economic and
Social Council resolution 1980/67 of 25 July 1980 on international years and
anniversaries, in particular paragraphs 1 to 10 of the annex thereto on the agreed
criteria for the proclamation of international years, as well as paragraphs 13 and 14,
in which it is stated that an international year should not be proclaimed before the
basic arrangements for its organization and financing have been made,
Recalling resolution 10/2019 of 28 June 2019, adopted by the Conference of the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations at its forty -first session, 1
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