Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of
Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development
and of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
A/RES/73/227
Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”, 6 as well as
the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for
Development, 7 the Doha Declaration on Financing for Development: outcome
document of the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development
to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, 8 the Programme of
Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, 9 the key
actions for the further implementation of the Programme of Action of the International
Conference on Population and Development, 10 the Beijing Declaration and Platform
for Action 11 and the outcome document of the special event to follow up efforts made
towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, 12
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 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,
Recalling the Istanbul Declaration 13 and the Programme of Action for the Least
Developed Countries for the Decade 2011–2020, 14 adopted by the Fourth United
Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, held in Istanbul, Turkey, from
9 to 13 May 2011, and endorsed by the General Assembly in resolution 65/280 of
17 June 2011, in which the Assembly called upon all the relevant stakeholders to
commit to implementing the Programme of Action,
Recalling also the Political Declaration adopted by the Comprehensive High level Midterm Review of the Implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action
for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011–2020, held in Antalya,
Turkey, from 27 to 29 May 2016, and endorsed by the General Assembly in its
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Resolution 66/288, annex.
Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico,
18−22 March 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1,
annex.
Resolution 63/239, annex.
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September
1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
Resolution S-21/2, annex.
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United
Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
Resolution 68/6.
Report of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Istanbul,
Turkey, 9–13 May 2011 (A/CONF.219/7), chap. I.
Ibid., chap. II.
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