A/RES/74/228
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 20 (a)
Globalization and interdependence: role of the
United Nations in promoting development in the context of
globalization and interdependence
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2019
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/74/382/Add.1)]
74/228.
Role of the United Nations in promoting development
in the context of globalization and interdependence
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 62/199 of 19 December 2007, 63/222 of 19 December
2008, 64/210 of 21 December 2009, 65/168 of 20 December 2010, 66/210 of
22 December 2011, 68/219 of 20 December 2013, 70/211 of 22 December 2015 and
72/227 of 20 December 2017 on the role of the United Nations in promoting
development in the context of globalization and interdependence,
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 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 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 Deve lopment, 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,
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