A/RES/70/184. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2015

• Resolution Number: A/RES/70/184
• Year: 2015
• Session: 70th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

A/RES/70/184

General Assembly

Distr.: General

4 February 2016

Seventieth session

Agenda item 17

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2015

[on the report of the Second Committee (A/70/469)]

70/184 . Infor mation and co mmunic ations techno logies for

develo pment

The General Assembly ,

Reca lling it s resolu tions 5 6/183 o f 21 De cember 2001, 57/238 of 20 D ecember

2002 , 57/27 0 B of 23 Jun e 2003 , 59/22 0 of 22 Dece mber 2 004, 6 0/252 of 27 March

2006 , 62/ 182 o f 19 Decembe r 20 07, 6 3/202 of 19 D ecember 2008 , 64 /187 of

21 Decembe r 2009, 6 5/141 of 2 0 Decem ber 2010, 66/184 o f 22 Dece mber 2011 ,

67/1 95 of 2 1 Decemb er 201 2, 68/1 98 of 2 0 Decem ber 201 3 and 69/2 04 of

19 Dece mber 20 14,

Recal ling also E conomic and Social Cou ncil resol utions 2006 /46 of 28 July

2006, 2008/3 of 18 July 2008 , 2009/7 of 24 J uly 2009, 2010/2 of 19 J uly 2010,

2011/16 of 26 Jul y 2011, 201 2/5 of 24 July 2012 , 2013/9 o f 22 July 2013 and 2014/27

of 16 July 2014 , and taki ng note of Council r esolution 2015/26 o f 22 Jul y 2015 o n the

assess ment of t he progre ss made i n the i mplementat ion of an d follow -up to th e

outco mes of the World Summit on t he Informa tion Socie ty,

Reaf firmi ng its resolu tion 70/1 of 25 Septe mber 2 015, entitle d “Tra nsformi ng

our worl d: t he 2 030 Agenda for Sus tainable De velopme nt”, in which it adopte d a

comp rehensiv e, fa r-reachi ng and peopl e-centr ed set of universa l and transf ormativ e

Sust ainable Dev elopmen t G oals and targe ts, its commit ment to worki ng tireles sly

for the full i mplement ation of th is Age nda b y 2030 , its recog nition that eradicat ing

pove rty in al l its for ms a nd d imensio ns, i ncludin g ex treme pover ty, is the greates t

glob al cha llenge and an i ndispens able require ment for su stainab le de velopme nt, it s

comm itment to ac hieving sust ainable dev elopmen t in it s th ree dimen sions —

econ omic, social and environm ental — in a ba lanced and i ntegrate d man ner, and to

buil ding up on the achi evements of t he Mi llennium Deve lopment Goals and seeking

to ad dress t heir unfi nished business ,

Reaf firmi ng al so its re solutio n 6 9/313 of 27 July 2015 o n the Addis Ab aba

Acti on A genda of the Thi rd I nternati onal Confe rence on Fina ncing for

Deve lopment , wh ich is an int egral part of th e 2 030 Agend a f or S ustainab le

Deve lopment , suppor ts and c ompleme nts it, h elps to contex tualize its me ans of

impl ementati on ta rgets with concret e po licies and action s, an d rea ffirms the strong

poli tical co mmitme nt to address the ch allenge of fin ancing and c reating an ena bling

envi ronment at all lev els for sust ainable de velopme nt i n th e sp irit of glob al

part nership and soli darity,