A/RES/67/294
New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support
Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”, 4
including the importance of fulfilling all commitments to advance action in areas
critical to Africa’s sustainable development,
Recalling its resolution 66/293 of 17 September 2012, by which it established
a United Nations monitoring mechanism to review commitments made towards
Africa’s development, and looking forward to the first biennial report, to be
submitted to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session,
Stressing that addressing Africa’s special development needs should be given
due attention in the post-2015 development agenda,
Bearing in mind that African countries have primary responsibility for their
own economic and social development and that the role of national policies and
development strategies cannot be overemphasized, and bearing in mind also the
need for their development efforts to be supported by an enabling international
economic environment, and in this regard recalling the support given by the
International Conference on Financing for Development to the New Partnership, 5
Reiterating the need for the international community to implement all
commitments regarding the economic and social development of Africa,
1.
Welcomes the tenth consolidated report of the Secretary-General; 6
2.
Reaffirms its full support for the implementation of the New Partnership
for Africa’s Development; 7
3.
Reaffirms its commitment to the full implementation of the political
declaration on Africa’s development needs, 2 as reaffirmed in the Doha Declaration
on Financing for Development, adopted as the outcome document of the Follow-up
International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the
Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, held in Doha from 29 November to
2 December 2008; 8
4.
Recognizes the progress made in the implementation of the New
Partnership as well as regional and international support for the New Partnership,
while acknowledging that much needs to be done in its implementation;
5.
Takes note of the Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying
Our Efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS, adopted at the high-level meeting on
HIV/AIDS on 10 June 2011,9 also takes note of the declaration of the extraordinary
summit meeting of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the
Organization of African Unity on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and other related infectious
diseases, held in Abuja from 24 to 27 April 2001, and reaffirms the resolve to
provide assistance for prevention, treatment and care, with the aim of ensuring an
HIV/AIDS-, malaria- and tuberculosis-free Africa by addressing the needs of all, in
particular the needs of women, children and young people, and the urgent need to
scale up significantly efforts towards achieving the goal of universal access to
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Resolution 66/288, annex.
See Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18–22 March
2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
6
A/67/204.
7
A/57/304, annex.
8
Resolution 63/239, annex.
9
Resolution 65/277, annex.
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