A/RES/72/230 Development cooperation with middle-income countries 15. Recognizes that middle-income countries still face significant challenges in achieving sustainable development and that, in order to ensure that achievements made to date are sustained, efforts to address ongoing challenges should be strengthened through the exchange of experiences, improved coordination and better and focused support of the United Nations development system, the international financial institutions, regional organizations and other stakeholders, re quests those stakeholders to ensure that the diverse and specific development needs of middle income countries are appropriately considered and addressed, in a tailored fashion, in their relevant strategies and policies, with a view to promoting a coherent and comprehensive approach towards individual countries, and acknowledges that official development assistance and other forms of concessional financing are still important for a number of these countries and have a role to play in achieving targeted resu lts, taking into account the specific needs of these countries; 16. Notes with concern that access to concessional finance is reduced as countries’ incomes grow and that countries may not be able to access sufficient affordable financing from other sources to meet their needs, encourages shareholders in multilateral development banks to develop graduation policies that are sequenced, phased and gradual, and encourages multilateral development banks to explore ways to ensure that their assistance best addresses the opportunities and challenges presented by the diverse circumstances of middle-income countries; 17. Recognizes that Governments will have the primary responsibility for follow-up and review at the national, regional and global levels in relation to the progress made in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals and targets and that quality, accessible, timely and reliable disaggregated data will be needed to help with the measurement of progress and to ensure that no one is left behind, and i n this regard reiterates the commitment to intensify efforts to strengthen statistical capacities in developing countries, including middle-income countries; 18. Recalls paragraph 11 of its resolution 67/290 of 9 July 2013, and stresses that the concerns and specific challenges of middle-income countries should be given consideration, as appropriate, in the follow-up and review process of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; 19. Calls upon the relevant organizations of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates and resources, to ensure that no one is left behind and no country is left behind in the implementation of the present resolution; 20. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly, at its seventy-fourth session, a report on the implementation of the present resolution, including an update on the ongoing efforts by the United Nations system, in consultation with the international financial institutions, rega rding the development of measurements that recognize poverty in all its forms and dimensions, as well as an assessment of the importance of tailoring support to middle -income countries, and decides to include, under the item entitled “Globalization and interdependence”, the sub-item entitled “Development cooperation with middle-income countries” in the provisional agenda of its seventy-fourth session. 74th plenary meeting 20 December 2017 6/6 17-23307