A/RES/72/228
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 21 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2017
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/72/422/Add.2)]
72/228.
Science, technology and innovation for development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 58/200 of 23 December 2003, 59/220 of 22 December
2004, 60/205 of 22 December 2005, 61/207 of 20 December 2006, 62/201 of
19 December 2007, 64/212 of 21 December 2009, 66/211 of 22 December 2011,
68/220 of 20 December 2013 and 70/213 of 22 December 2015,
Taking note of Economic and Social Council resolutions 2006/46 of 28 July
2006, 2009/8 of 24 July 2009, 2010/3 of 19 July 2010, 2011/17 of 26 July 2011,
2012/6 of 24 July 2012, 2013/10 of 22 July 2013, 2014/28 of 16 July 2014, 2015/27
of 22 July 2015, 2016/23 of 27 July 2016 and 2017/22 of 6 July 2017,
Recalling the 2005 World Summit Outcome, 1 as well as the outcomes of the
World Summit on the Information Society 2 and the outcome document of the highlevel meeting of the General Assembly on the overall review of the implementation
of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society, 3 as well as other
relevant intergovernmental outcomes,
Recalling also the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”, 4
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
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Resolution 60/1.
See A/C.2/59/3 and A/60/687.
Resolution 70/125.
Resolution 66/288, annex.
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