A/RES/73/239
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 21
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2018
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/73/539)]
73/239.
Implementation of the outcomes of the United Nations Conferences
on Human Settlements and on Housing and Sustainable Urban
Development and strengthening of the United Nations Human
Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
The General Assembly,
Recalling its relevant resolutions on the implementation of the outcomes of the
United Nations Conferences on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and on Housing and
Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) and strengthening of the United Nations
Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), including its resolutions 32/162 of
19 December 1977, 56/206 of 21 December 2001, 65/165 of 20 December 2010,
66/207 of 22 December 2011, 67/216 of 21 December 2012, 68/239 of 27 December
2013, 69/226 of 19 December 2014, 70/210 of 22 December 2015, 71/235 of
21 December 2016 and 72/226 of 20 December 2017,
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 wor king 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 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
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