A/RES/73/25 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 6 December 2018 Seventy-third session Agenda item 14 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 3 December 2018 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.39 and A/73/L.39/Add.1)] 73/25. International Day of Education The General Assembly, 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 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, Acknowledging the importance of education for achieving sustainable development, including in the context of the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals, Agenda 21, 1 the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg Plan of Implementation), 2 the Education for All goals, the Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development, 3 and the Incheon Declaration and Framework for Action for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 4, __________________ 1 2 3 18-20839 (E) Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigendum), resolution 1, annex II. Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August–4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum), chap. I, resolution 2, annex. See A/69/76, annex. 101218 *1820839*