A/RES/73/252
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 26
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2018
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/73/544)]
73/252.
International Year of Plant Health, 2020
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 proclaimed before
the basic arrangements for its organization and financing have been made,
Noting that healthy plants constitute the foundation for all life on Earth, as well
as ecosystem functions and food security, and are key to sustaining life on Earth,
Recognizing that plant health is key to the sustainable development of
agriculture to feed the growing global population by 2050,
Recognizing also that sustaining plant health protects the environment, forests
and biodiversity from plant pests, addresses the effects of climate change, and
supports efforts to end hunger, malnutrition and poverty and boosts economic
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