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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 ensuring that
no one is left behind, 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 General Assembly resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the
Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for
Development, 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 s trong
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,
Reaffirming further its full commitment to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development as the blueprint for building back better after the COVID-19 pandemic,
and calling upon Member States to ensure that efforts to implement the 2030 Agenda
for all, by reaching all its Goals and targets, are strengthened and accelerated in this
decade of action for building more sustainable, peaceful, just, equitable, inclusive and
resilient societies where no one is left behind,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 8 and the obligations of
States parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 9 the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 10 the Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 11 the Convention on
the Rights of the Child, 12 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 13
the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination14 and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of
All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families,15
Reaffirming the Paris Agreement, 16 and encouraging all its parties to fully
implement the Agreement and parties to the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change 17 that have not yet done so to deposit their instruments of
ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where appropriate, as soon as
possible,
Recalling the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030,18
recalling also its promotion of regular disaster risk preparedness, prevention, response
and recovery exercises, at the national and local levels, recalling further the New
Urban Agenda, 19 and reaffirming the importance of promoting the integration of food
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General Assembly resolution 217 A (III).
See General Assembly resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Ibid.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
Ibid., vol. 660, No. 9464.
Ibid., vol. 2220, No. 39481.
Adopted under the UNFCCC in FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.
General Assembly resolution 69/283, annex II.
General Assembly resolution 71/256, annex.
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