Role of the United Nations in promoting development
in the context of globalization and interdependence
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facilitates the work of Member States in addressing, inter alia, poverty, inequalities
and environmental challenges;
10. Underlines that the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals
and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will depend on an enabling
international environment for development and on facilitating the necessary means of
implementation, particularly in the areas of finance, international trade, technology
and capacity-building for developing countries, and in this regard calls for a sincere
and effective follow-up on the global commitments of all actors;
11. Recognizes that the scaling up of successful policies and approaches in the
implementation and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals needs to be
complemented by an enhanced and revitalized global partnership and that this
partnership should work in the spirit of global solidarity to support a t ruly universal
and transformative global development agenda;
12. Reaffirms that the creation, development and diffusion of new innovations
and technologies and associated know-how, including the transfer of technology on
mutually agreed terms, are powerful drivers of economic growth and sustainable
development;
13. Also reaffirms the need to promote the development, transfer,
dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing
countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as
mutually agreed;
14. Underlines the significant potential of regional economic integration and
interconnectivity to promote inclusive growth and sustainable development, and
reiterates its commitment to strengthening regional cooperation and regional trade
agreements;
15. Invites the President of the General Assembly to consider hosting, in the
second quarter of 2020, a thematic debate on how to maximize the benefits of
globalization and interdependence in all countries in the context of achieving the
Sustainable Development Goals;
16. Reaffirms the commitment at the very heart of the 2030 Agenda to leave
no one behind and commit to taking more tangible steps to support people in
vulnerable situations and the most vulnerable countries and to reach the furthest
behind first;
17. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
seventy-sixth session an action-oriented report on the implementation of the present
resolution, including concrete recommendations to accelerate the implementation of
the Goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and decides
to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-sixth session, under the item
entitled “Globalization and interdependence”, the sub-item entitled “Role of the
United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and
interdependence”.
52nd plenary meeting
19 December 2019
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