A/RES/71/289
Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Organization of la Francophonie
Affirming the importance of a balanced and effective multilateral system that is
representative of today’s world, one that is based upon a strong and renewed United
Nations,
Noting with satisfaction the commitment of the International Organization of
la Francophonie to human rights, gender equality, the empowerment of women, girls
and youth and their active participation in society, multilingualism and multilateral
cooperation for peace, democratic governance and the rule of law, economic
governance and solidarity, sustainable development and its financing, especially
poverty eradication in all its forms and dimensions, protection of the environment,
sustainable and universal access to modern energy services, combating climate
change, countering terrorism in all its forms and preventing radicalization to
terrorism,
Welcoming the adoption of the Antananarivo Declaration at the sixteenth
Summit of la Francophonie, held in Antananarivo on 26 and 27 November 2016 on
the theme “Shared growth and responsible development: conditi ons for stability
around the world and within la Francophonie”, and noting the decision to hold the
seventeenth Summit in Yerevan in 2018 and the eighteenth Summit in Tunis in
2020,
Recalling the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June 2012,
entitled “The future we want”, 1
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,
Noting with satisfaction the commitments made by the member States and
Governments of the International Organization of la Francophonie on the adoption
of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on
Financing for Development, 2 as well as the adoption and early entry into force of the
Paris Agreement on climate change, 3 and the outcome of the twenty-second session
of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change, held in Marrakech, Morocco, from 7 to 18 November 2016, 4
reaffirmed by the Heads of State and Government of countries using French as a
common language at the sixteenth Summit of la Francophonie, together with an
undertaking to play an active role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
and a determination to implement national sustainable development strategies to
make an effective contribution to eradicating poverty, to ensuring sustainable and
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1
Resolution 66/288, annex.
Resolution 69/313, annex.
3
See FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21, annex.
4
See FCCC/CP/2016/10, annex I.
2
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