Follow-up to the second United Nations Conference
on Landlocked Developing Countries
A/RES/74/233
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 Paris Agreement 3 and its early entry into force,
encouraging all its parties to fully implement the Agreement, and parties to the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 4 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, 5 while recognizing that landlocked developing countries face
some specific disaster risk challenges, and reiterating the commitment to addressing
disaster risk reduction and building resilience to disasters within the context of
sustainable development and poverty eradication,
Reaffirming the New Urban Agenda, adopted at the United Nations Conference
on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in Quito from
17 to 20 October 2016, 6 and recognizing the importance of sustainable urban
development for landlocked developing countries,
Recognizing that the lack of territorial access to the sea, aggravated by
remoteness from world markets and high transit costs and risks, continues to pose
serious constraints on the overall growth and socioecono mic development of
landlocked developing countries,
Acknowledging the importance of promoting collaboration between landlocked
developing countries and transit countries on the basis of common interest, and noting
that collaboration efforts need to be supported by an enabling international economic
environment, taking into account different national realities, capacities and levels of
development and respecting national priorities, while remaining consistent with
international rules and commitments,
Recognizing the transport infrastructure gap in landlocked developing countries
and the need to bring the level of transport infrastructure up to global standards and,
in this regard, the crucial importance of strong national and international partnerships
to bridging the gap and enhancing existing transport infrastructure facilities,
Acknowledging the need to promote meaningful regional integration to
encompass cooperation among countries for the implementation of the Vienna
Programme of Action,
Recognizing that it is important for all countries, including landlocked
developing countries, to commit to a world in which all women and girls enjoy full
gender equality with men and boys and all legal, social and economic barriers to their
empowerment and equality have been removed,
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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 71/256, annex.
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