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International migration and development
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 develo pment, 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, and 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,
Reaffirming further the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants,
adopted at the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on addressing
large movements of refugees and migrants, held at United Nations Headquarters on
19 September 2016, 6
Reaffirming the New Urban Agenda, which was adopted at the United Nations
Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in
Quito from 17 to 20 October 2016, 7 and recognizing the linkages between migration
and sustainable urbanization and sustainable urban development,
Reaffirming also the Paris Agreement, 8 and encouraging all its parties to fully
implement the Agreement, and parties to the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change 9 that have not yet done so to deposit their instruments of
ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where appropriate, as soon as
possible,
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, 10 and those provisions that are applicable to migrants,
Recalling also the second High-level Dialogue on International Migration and
Development, held in New York on 3 and 4 October 2013, which addressed
constructively the issue of international migration and development and explored the
opportunities and the challenges that international migration presents, including the
protection of the human rights of migrants and the contribution of migrants to
development,
Recalling further the Declaration of the High-level Dialogue on International
Migration and Development adopted on 3 October 2013 on the occasion of the
High-level Dialogue,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 11 recalling the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 12 the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 12 the International Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 13 the Convention on the
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Resolution 71/1.
Resolution 71/256, annex.
Adopted under the UNFCCC in FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.
Resolution 69/283, annexes I and II.
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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