A/RES/74/199
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 17
Macroeconomic policy questions
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2019
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/74/379)]
74/199.
Promoting investments for sustainable development
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 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,
Emphasizing that success in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and
the eradication of poverty in all its forms and dimensions depends on the creation of
enabling environments at all levels,
Recognizing that a revitalized global partnership will facilitate an intensive
global engagement in support of the implementation of all of the Goals and their
targets, bringing together Governments, civil society, the private sector, the United
Nations system and other actors and mobilizing all available resources,
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