A/RES/70/214. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2015

• Resolution Number: A/RES/70/214
• Year: 2015
• Session: 70th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

A/RES/70/214

General Assembly

Distr.: General

26 February 2016

Seventieth session

Agenda item 22 (c)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2015

[on the report of the Second Committee (A/70/474/Add.3)]

70/214 . Cultu re and sustain able developm ent

The General Assembl y,

Guid ed by t he pu rposes and princip les e nshrine d in the Charter of the United

Nati ons,

Reca lling its re solution s 41/ 187 o f 8 D ecember 1986 , 46/1 58 o f 19 D ecember

1991 , 51/ 179 o f 16 Decembe r 19 96, 52/1 97 of 18 D ecember 199 7, 53 /184 of

15 De cember 1 998, 55/1 92 of 20 D ecember 2000, 57 /249 of 20 Decembe r 2002,

65/1 66 of 20 De cember 2010 and 66/208 of 22 Dece mber 2011, concerni ng cu lture

and dev elopmen t, 66/2 88 of 27 July 2 012, e ntitled “Th e futur e we want ”, and

68/2 23 of 2 0 Decemb er 201 3 and 6 9/230 o f 19 Dec ember 2014 on cul ture an d

sust ainable develop ment,

Reaf firmi ng its resolut ion 70/1 of 2 5 Septem ber 2015, 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 i n al l its for ms a nd d imensio ns, i ncludi ng e xtreme pove rty, is the gre atest

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 sus tainable dev elopmen t in its thr ee d imensio ns —

econ omic, social and e nvironme ntal — in a ba lanced and i ntegrat ed man ner, an d 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 solution 6 9/313 of 27 July 2015 o n the Addis Ab aba

Acti on Agen da of t he Third I nternat ional Co nferenc e on Fi nancing for

Deve lopment , wh ich is an i ntegral par t of th e 20 30 Age nda for Sus tainable

Deve lopment , suppor ts and c ompleme nts it, h elps to cont extualiz e its me ans of

impl ementat ion t argets with concre te po licies and actions , and reaff irms the s trong

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

envi ronment at a ll l evels fo r su stainab le d evelopm ent in t he s pirit of glo bal

part nership and soli darity,

Reca lling tha t, in t he 2030 Agenda for Sus tainabl e Develo pment, inter al ia, the

natu ral and cultur al dive rsity of the world is ack nowledg ed and it is recogn ized t hat

cultu res a nd ci vilizati ons c an co ntribute to, and are crucial enabl ers o f, sus taina ble

deve lopme nt,