A/RES/73/220
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 18 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2018
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/73/536/Add.2)]
73/220.
International financial system and development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 55/186 of 20 December 2000 and 56/181 of
21 December 2001, entitled “Towards a strengthened and stable international financial
architecture responsive to the priorities of growth and development, especially in
developing countries, and to the promotion of economic and social equity ”, as well
as its resolutions 57/241 of 20 December 2002, 58/202 of 23 December 2003, 59/222
of 22 December 2004, 60/186 of 22 December 2005, 61/187 of 20 December 2006,
62/185 of 19 December 2007, 63/205 of 19 December 2008, 64/190 of 21 December
2009, 65/143 of 20 December 2010, 66/187 of 22 December 2011, 67/197 of
21 December 2012, 68/201 of 20 December 2013, 69/206 of 19 December 2014, 70/188
of 22 December 2015, 71/215 of 21 December 2016 and 72/203 of
20 December 2017,
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 tir elessly 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, i ts
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 implementa tion targets with
concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the strong political commitment to
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