A/RES/64/215. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2009

• Resolution Number: A/RES/64/215
• Session: 64th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/64/215

General Assembly Distr.: General

23 March 2010

Sixty-fourth session

Agenda item 57

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2009

[on the report of the Second Committee (A/64/424)]

64/215. Legal empowerment of the poor and eradication

of poverty

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

the 2005 World Summit Outcome,

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Recalling also

its resolution 63/142 of 11 December 2008,

Recalling further

the United Nations Millennium Declaration,

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the Monterrey

Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development,

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the Plan

of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development

(“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”),

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the Doha Declaration on Financing for

Development

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and the Outcome of the Conference on the World Financial and

Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development,

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Reaffirming

the importance of the timely and full realization of the

development goals and objectives agreed upon at the major United Nations

conferences and summits, including the Millennium Development Goals,

Reiterating

that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and

interrelated,

Remaining

committed

to the objective of making the right to development a

reality for everyone, as set out in the Millennium Declaration,

Concerned

by the global nature of poverty and inequality, reaffirming that

eradicating poverty is one of the greatest global challenges facing the world today,

particularly in Africa and in the least developed countries, and underlining the

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1 See resolution 60/1.

2 See resolution 55/2.

3 Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18–22 March

2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.

4 Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August–4 September

2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum), chap. I, resolution 2, annex.

5 Resolution 63/239, annex.

6 Resolution 63/303, annex.