A/RES/68/203. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2013

• Year: 2013
• Resolution Number: A/RES/68/203
• Session: 68th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

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/RES/68/203

General Assembly

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21 January 2014

Sixty-eighth session

Agenda item 17 (d)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2013

[on the report of the Second Committee (A/68/436/Ad d.4)]

68/203. Commodities

The Genera l Assem bly

,

Reca lling

its resol utions 59/224 of 22 Decem ber 20 04, 61 /190 o f 20 D ecembe r

2006 , 63/207 o f 19 Dece mber 200 8, 64/19 2 o f 21 Dec ember 20 09 and 66/ 190 of

22 D ecembe r 2011 on com moditie s,

Reca lling also

the United Nat ions Mille nnium Decl aration ado pted by Heads

of State and Gov ernment on 8 Se ptembe r 20 00,

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the 200 5 Wor ld Su mmit Outc ome

adop ted on 16 S eptemb er 2005

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and it s resolut ion 60/26 5 o f 30 June 2 006 on the

foll ow-up to th e develop ment out come of the 2 005 World Su mmit, in cluding t he

Mill ennium D evelop ment Goal s a nd the othe r i nternat ionally a greed dev elopme nt

goal s, the outc ome do cumen t of th e high -level plen ary me eting o f the Gene ral

Asse mbly on the Millen nium Develo pment Goals

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and the o utcome docu ment o f the

spec ial e vent t o foll ow u p effo rts ma de to wards ac hieving the Mi llenniu m

Deve lopmen t G oals, co nvened b y th e P residen t o f t he Gener al Asse mbly on

25 S eptemb er 201 3,

4

Reca lling furthe r

th e Pro gramme of Action for the Le ast D evelop ed Cou ntries

for the Dec ade 20 11–2020 ,

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Taking not e

of t he ta rgets set out in the Declar ation of the World Summi t on

Food S ecurity, he ld in Rome fro m 16 to 18 No vember 20 09, whic h r eaffirm s t he

pled ge to e nd hun ger and pover ty,

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Reca lling

t he Co nferenc e on the World Financ ial an d Ec onomic Cris is and Its

Imp act on Develop ment a nd its outcom e docu ment,

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1

Resolution 55/2.

2

Resolution 60/1.

3

Resolution 65/1.

4

Resolution 68/6.

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Report of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Istanbul, Turkey,

9–13 May 2011 (A/CONF.219/7), chap. II.

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See Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document WSFS 2009/2.

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Resolution 63/303, annex.