A/RES/73/251
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 26
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2018
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/73/544)]
73/251.
World Pulses Day
The General Assembly,
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 work ing 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 develop ment, 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 resolutions 53/199 of 15 December 1998 and 61/185 of
20 December 2006 on the proclamation of international years, and Economic and
Social Council resolution 1980/67 of 25 July 1980 on international years and
anniversaries, in particular paragraphs 1 to 10 of the annex thereto on the agreed
criteria for the proclamation of international years, as well as paragraphs 13 and 14,
in which it is stated that an international day or year should not be proclaimed before
the basic arrangements for its organization and financing have been made,
Recalling resolution 10/2017 adopted on 7 July 2017 by the Conference of the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations at its fortieth session,
Recognizing the success of the International Year of Pulses 2016, declared by
the General Assembly in its resolution 68/231 of 20 December 2013, which raised the
role of pulses in contributing to sustainable food production aimed towards food
security and nutrition,
Noting that pulse crops such as lentils, beans, peas and chickpeas are one of the
sources of plant-based proteins and amino acids for a healthy diet for people around
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