A/RES/73/225
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 20
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2018
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/73/538)]
73/225.
Entrepreneurship for sustainable development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 67/202 of 21 December 2012, 69/210 of 19 December
2014 and 71/221 of 21 December 2016,
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 pove rty, 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 70/299 of 29 July 2016 on the follow-up and
review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the global level,
Reiterating the pledge that no one will be left behind, reaffirming the
recognition that the dignity of the human person is fundamental and the wish to see
the Sustainable Development Goals and targets met for all nations and peoples and
for all segments of society, and recommitting to endeavour to reach the furthest
behind first,
Reaffirming 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
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