A/RES/70/203
United Nations
Distr.: General
23 February 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 20 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2015
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/70/472/Add.3)]
70/203. World Tsunami Awareness Day
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Sendai Declaration and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk
Reduction 2015–2030, adopted at the Third United Nations World Conference on
Disaster Risk Reduction, as endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution
69/283 of 3 June 2015, and recognizing that one of the priorities for action of the
Sendai Framework is an understanding of disaster risk for prevention and mitigation
and for the development and implementation of appropriate preparedness and
effective response to disasters, which continue to undermine efforts to achieve
sustainable development,
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 this 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, an d 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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