United Nations
A/RES/70/295
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 August 2016
Seventieth session
Agenda item 66 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 25 July 2016
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/70/L.48/Rev.1 and Add.1)]
70/295. New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in
implementation and international support
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 57/2 of 16 September 2002 on the United Nations
Declaration on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development,
Recalling also its resolution 57/7 of 4 November 2002 on the final review and
appraisal of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the
1990s and support for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development and all its
subsequent resolutions, including resolution 69/290 of 19 June 2015, entitled “New
Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international
support”,
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 this 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 resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015, entitled “Addis Ababa
Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development
(Addis Ababa Action Agenda)”, which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development, supports and complements it, helps to contextualize its
means of implementation targets with concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms
the strong political commitment to address the challenge of financing and creating
an enabling environment at all levels for sustainable development in the spirit of
global partnership and solidarity,
Recalling that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development underscores the
special challenges facing the most vulnerable countries, including African countries,
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