A/RES/74/241 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 20 January 2020 Seventy-fourth session Agenda item 24 Agriculture development, food security and nutrition Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2019 [on the report of the Second Committee (A/74/386)] 74/241. International Tea Day The General Assembly, 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 resolutions 53/199 of 15 December 1998 and 61/185 of 20 December 2006 on the proclamation of international years, and Economic and Social Council resolution 1980/67 of 25 July 1980 on international years and anniversaries, particularly paragraphs 1 to 10 of the annex thereto on the agreed criteria for the proclamation of international years, as well as paragraphs 13 and 14, in which it is stated that an international day or year should not be proclaimed before the basic arrangements for its organization and financing have been made, Recalling resolution 12/2019 of 28 June 2019, adopted by the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations at its forty-first session, 1 Recognizing the importance of promoting sustainable development in its three dimensions in an innovative, coordinated, environmentally sound, open and shared manner and the urgent need to raise public awareness of the importance of tea for __________________ 1 19-22516 (E) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document C 2019/REP, appendix I. 200120 *1922516*

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