A/RES/73/222
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 18 (d)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2018
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/73/536/Add.4)]
73/222.
Promotion of international cooperation to combat illicit financial
flows and strengthen good practices on assets return to foster
sustainable development
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United
Nations,
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 commit ment 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
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustain able 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 its 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 strong 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 the United Nations Convention against Corruption, 1 which
is the most comprehensive and universal instrument on corruption, and recognizing
the need to continue to promote its ratification or accession thereto and its full and
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