A/RES/70/224. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2015

• Year: 2015
• Resolution Number: A/RES/70/224
• Session: 70th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

A/RES/70/224

General Assembly

Distr.: General

23 February 2016

Seventieth session

Agenda item 27

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2015

[on the report of the Second Committee (A/70/479)]

70/224 . Towards global pa rtners hips: a princ iple-based approac h

to enh anced cooperation between the United Nation s and

all rel evant p artner s

The General Assembly ,

Reca lling i ts res olution s 55/2 15 of 21 Decemb er 20 00, 56 /76 of 11 December

2001 , 58/12 9 of 19 Dece mber 2 003, 6 0/215 o f 22 De cember 200 5, 62/2 11 of

19 Dece mber 2 007, 6 4/223 of 21 Decembe r 2009, 66/22 3 of 2 2 Dece mber 20 11 and

68/2 34 of 20 Decemb er 2013 ,

Reaf firmi ng its resolut ion 7 0/1 o f 25 Sept ember 2015, entitle d “Tr ansformi 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 fo rms a nd dimensio ns, includin g ex treme pover ty, is the grea test

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

comm itment t o ac hieving sust ainable dev elopmen t in its t hree dime nsions —

econ omic, social and e nvironme ntal — 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 firming al so its resol ution 69/3 13 of 27 Jul y 2015 on the Ad dis Ababa

Acti on Agen da of t he Thir d I nternati onal Co nferenc e o n F inancing fo r

Deve lopment , wh ich is a n in tegral p art of t he 2 030 Age nda for Sust ainable

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

impl ementati on ta rgets with concret e pol icies and actio ns, an d re affirms the strong

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

envi ronment at al l le vels for s ustaina ble deve lopment in th e sp irit of g lobal

part nership and soli darity,

Reca lling t hese o bjective s, pa rticular ly wi th reg ard to devel oping partner ships

thro ugh the prov ision of grea ter oppo rtuniti es to the p rivate sect or,

non-g overnme ntal or ganizati ons an d civi l socie ty in genera l so a s to enable them to

cont ribute to the real ization of the go als and progr ammes of th e O rganizat ion, in

part icular in the pur suit of sustain able dev elopmen t and th e eradi cation o f povert y,