A/RES/74/244
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 14
Integrated and coordinated implementation of and followup to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences
and summits in the economic, social and related fields
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2019
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/74/L.37 and A/74/L.37/Add.1)]
74/244.
International Year of Fruits and Vegetables, 2021
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, in particular 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 proclai med before
the basic arrangements for its organization and financing have been made,
Considering the urgent need to raise awareness of the nutritional and health
benefits of fruit and vegetable consumption and to advocate for healthy diets through
increased sustainable production and consumption of fruits and vegetables,
Recalling the Rome Declaration on Nutrition, as well as the Framework for
Action, which provides a set of voluntary policy options and strategies for use by
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