A/RES/73/221
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 18 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2018
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/73/536/Add.3)]
73/221.
External debt sustainability and development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 58/203 of 23 December 2003, 59/223 of 22 December
2004, 60/187 of 22 December 2005, 61/188 of 20 December 2006, 62/186 of
19 December 2007, 63/206 of 19 December 2008, 64/191 of 21 December 2009,
65/144 of 20 December 2010, 66/189 of 22 December 2011, 67/198 of 21 December
2012, 68/202 of 20 December 2013, 69/207 of 19 December 2014, 70/190 of
22 December 2015, 71/216 of 21 December 2016 and 72/204 of 20 December 2017,
Noting the work of the United Nations in this area,
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,
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,
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