A/RES/73/140 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 8 January 2019 Seventy-third session Agenda item 28 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2018 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/581)] 73/140. Volunteering for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 70/129 of 17 December 2015, entitled “Integrating volunteering into peace and development: the plan of action for the next decade and beyond”, Welcoming the integration of volunteerism into all relevant issues considered at the United Nations, in particular the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 1 in which it adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative Sustainable Development Goals and targets, as well as the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, 2 in which it is acknowledged that volunteers and other stakeholders will be important to mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, complement the efforts of Governments and support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular in developing countries, Recognizing that volunteerism can be a powerful and cross-cutting means of implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, that it can help to expand and mobilize constituencies and engage people in the national planning and implementation of the 2030 Agenda, and that volunteer groups can help to localize the Agenda by providing new areas of interaction between Governments and people for concrete and scalable actions, Acknowledging that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development creates unprecedented global and national urgency to acceler ate progress in the recognition, promotion, facilitation, networking and integration of volunteer action by and __________________ 1 2 18-22173 (E) Resolution 70/1. Resolution 69/313, annex. 100119 *1822173*

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