A/RES/77/177
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
29 December 2022
Seventy-seventh session
Agenda item 21 (a)
Groups of countries in special situations: follow-up to the Fifth
United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on
14 December 2022
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/77/446/Add.1, para. 8)]
77/177.
Follow-up to the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least
Developed Countries
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Doha Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries,
adopted during the first part of the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least
Developed Countries, held in New York on 17 March 2022, and endorsed by the
General Assembly in its resolution 76/258 of 1 April 2022, in which the Assembly
called upon all the relevant stakeholders to commit to implementing the Programme
of Action,
Recalling also the progress achieved in the implementation of the Istanbul
Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011 –2020, 1
as well as where it fell short of achieving desired progress in the set goals and targets,
Affirming that the Doha Programme of Action is a new generation of r enewed
and strengthened commitments by the least developed countries and their
development partners grounded in the overarching goals of achieving rapid,
sustainable and inclusive recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID -19)
pandemic, building resilience against future shocks, eradicating extreme poverty,
strengthening labour markets by promoting the transition from informal to formal
employment, enabling graduation from the least developed country category,
facilitating access to sustainable and innovative financing, addressing inequalities,
within and among countries, leveraging the power of science, technology and
innovation, mainstreaming technology-driven entrepreneurship, bringing about
structural transformation and achieving the Sustainable Develo pment Goals, through
a reinvigorated global partnership for sustainable development based on scaled -up
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Report of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Istanbul,
Turkey, 9–13 May 2011 (A/CONF.219/7), chap. II.
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