A/RES/65/174. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2010

• Resolution Number: A/RES/65/174
• Year: 2010
• Session: 65th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/65/174

General Assembly Distr.: General

17 March 2011

Sixty-fifth session

Agenda item 24 (a)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2010

[on the report of the Second Committee (A/65/440/Add.1)]

65/174. Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of

Poverty (2008–2017)

The General Assembly

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Recalling

its resolutions 47/196 of 22 December 1992, 48/183 of 21 December

1993, 50/107 of 20 December 1995, 56/207 of 21 December 2001, 57/266 of

20 December 2002, 58/222 of 23 December 2003, 59/247 of 22 December 2004,

60/209 of 22 December 2005, 61/213 of 20 December 2006, 62/205 of 19 December

2007, 63/230 of 19 December 2008 and 64/216 of 21 December 2009,

Recalling also

the United Nations Millennium Declaration, adopted by Heads

of State and Government on the occasion of the Millennium Summit,

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as well as the

international commitment to eradicate extreme poverty and to halve, by 2015, the

proportion of the world’s people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the

proportion of people who suffer from hunger,

Recalling further

the 2005 World Summit Outcome,

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Recalling

its resolutions 60/265 of 30 June 2006 on the follow-up to the

development outcome of the 2005 World Summit, including the Millennium

Development Goals and the other internationally agreed development goals, its

resolution 61/16 of 20 November 2006 on the strengthening of the Economic and

Social Council and its resolution 63/303 of 9 July 2009 entitled “Outcome of the

Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on

Development”,

Recalling also

its resolution 57/265 of 20 December 2002 on the establishment

of the World Solidarity Fund,

Welcoming

the poverty-related discussions in the annual ministerial reviews

held by the Economic and Social Council, which play an important supporting role

in the implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of

Poverty (2008–2017),

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1 See resolution 55/2.

2 See resolution 60/1.