New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support A/RES/73/335 Recalling also the adoption of General Assembly resolution 71/254 of 23 December 2016 on the Framework for a Renewed United Nations -African Union Partnership on Africa’s Integration and Development Agenda 2017–2027, Welcoming the adoption by the Economic and Social Council of resolution 2019/5 of 6 June 2019 on the social dimensions of the New Partnership for Africa ’s Development, Recalling its resolution 70/259 of 1 April 2016, by which it proclaimed 2016–2025 the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition, and recalling also its resolution 72/306 of 24 July 2018, entitled “Implementation of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016–2025)”, Recalling also its resolution 66/293 of 17 September 2012, by which it established a United Nations monitoring mechanism to review commitments made towards Africa’s development, and looking forward to the fourth biennial report of the Secretary-General on the review of the implementation of the commitments made towards Africa’s development, to be submitted to the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session, Welcoming the ongoing support of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, 3 the African (Accelerated) Agribusiness and Agro-industries Development Initiative, the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plan for Africa and other programmes of the African Union aimed at further strengthening the industrializa tion process in Africa, Welcoming also the high-level events organized by the Office of the Special Adviser on Africa during the 2019 Africa Dialogue Series, on the theme “Towards durable solutions for forcibly displaced persons in Africa ”, Bearing in mind that African countries have primary responsibility for their own economic and social development and that the role of national policies and development strategies cannot be overemphasized, bearing in mind also the need for their development efforts to be supported by the international community and an enabling international economic environment, reiterating the need for the international community to implement all commitments regarding the economic and social development of Africa, and in this regard recalling the support given by the International Conference on Financing for Development to the New Partnership, 4 Welcoming the convening of the intergovernmental conference held on 10 and 11 December 2018 in Marrakech, Morocco, and recalling that it adop ted the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, also known as the Marrakech Compact on Migration, 5 Welcoming also the outcome of the second High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation, held in Buenos Aires from 20 to 2 2 March 2019, 6 Noting the various international events that have been held and are planned to be held between African countries and their partners, including the High -Level Forum Africa-Europe, held in Vienna on 17 and 18 December 2018, and the seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development, held in Yokohama, Japan, from 28 to 30 August 2019, as well as the convening of the first -ever Russia-Africa Summit, to be held in Sochi, Russian Federation, on 24 October 2019, __________________ 3 4 5 6 19-15588 A/57/304, annex. See Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18–22 March 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No.E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex. Resolution 73/195, annex. Resolution 73/291, annex. 3/11