United Nations
A/RES/71/319
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 August 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 106
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 28 August 2017
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/71/L.81)]
71/319. Draft outcome document of the high-level meeting of the
General Assembly on the appraisal of the United Nations
Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 70/179 of 17 December 2015, in which it decided to
convene a high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the appraisal of the
United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons 1 at its
seventy-second session, in October 2017, immediately after the general debate,
Recalling also its resolution 71/287 of 4 May 2017 regarding the modalities
for the high-level meeting, in which it decided that the high -level meeting would be
held on Wednesday, 27 September, and Thursday, 28 September 2017,
Decides to transmit the draft outcome document entitled “Political declaration
on the implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat
Trafficking in Persons”, which is contained in the annex to the present resolution,
for action by the General Assembly at its seventy-second session during the highlevel meeting on the appraisal of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to
Combat Trafficking in Persons, 1 to be held on Wednesday, 27 September, and
Thursday, 28 September 2017.
95th plenary meeting
28 August 2017
Annex
Political declaration on the implementation of the United Nations
Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons
1.
We, the States Members of the United Nations, reaffirm the United Nations
Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons 2 and our commitments
made therein, and evince our strong political will to take decisive concerted action
to end this heinous crime, wherever it may occur.
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Resolution 64/293.
Resolution 64/293.
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