A/RES/71/237. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2016

• Resolution Number: A/RES/71/237
• Year: 2016
• Session: 71st
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

A/RES/71/237

General Assembly

Distr.: General

23 January 2017

Seventy-first session

Agenda item 21 (b)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2016

[on the report of the Second Committee (A/71/465/Add.2)]

71/237 . Internationa l migration a nd dev elopment

The General Assembl y,

Reca lling its resolu tions 5 8/20 8 o f 23 Dec ember 2003, 5 9/24 1 o f 22 Dec ember

2004 , 60/ 227 of 23 Dec ember 2005, 61/2 08 of 20 Dece mber 2006, 63/22 5 of

19 Dece mber 2 008, 6 5/17 0 o f 20 De cember 2010, 67/219 of 21 Decembe r 2012 and

69/2 29 of 19 Dece mber 2014 on intern ational migr ation and develo pment, its

resol ution 68/4 o f 3 Octo ber 20 13, by which it adop ted th e Decla ration of the High -

level Dialog ue on I nternati onal Mi gration and Dev elopmen t, its r esolutio n 60/ 206 of

22 Dece mber 20 05 on t he facili tation and redu ction o f the c ost of t ransfer of migr ant

remi ttances, it s r esolutio ns 62/156 of 18 Dece mber 2007 , 6 4/16 6 of 18 De cember

2009 , 66/ 172 of 19 Dec ember 2011, 68/1 79 of 18 Dece mber 2013, 69/16 7 of

18 Dece mber 2014 and 70/147 of 17 Dece mber 2015 on t he pr otection of migran ts

and its reso lution 62/2 70 of 20 Jun e 20 08 on t he G lobal Foru m on Mi gration and

Deve lopment , and r ecalling also chapter X of t he Pro gramme of Acti on of the

Inter nationa l Conf erence on Populat ion an d Deve lopment

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and Commi ssion on

Popu lation and Dev elopmen t re solutio ns 2 006/2 of 10 M ay 2006,

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200 8/1 of

11 Apr il 2008,

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201 3/1 of 2 6 April 2 013

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and 2014/1 of 11 Apr il 2014,

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Reaf firmi ng its resolut ion 70/1 of 2 5 Septem ber 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 tar gets, its comm itment to wor king tirele ssly

for the full impleme ntation of the Agenda by 2030, its recogni tion t hat e radicati ng

pove rty i n al l its for ms a nd d imensio ns, i ncludin g ext reme povert y, is t he g reatest

glob al cha llenge and an i ndispens able requir ement for sustaina ble d evelopm ent, its

comm itment to achie ving sustai nable devel opment in its three dim ensions —

econ omic, social and e nvironme ntal — in a ba lanced and i ntegrate d man ner, and to

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1

Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994

(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.

2

See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2006, Supplement No. 5 (E/2006/25), chap. I,

sect. B.

3

Ibid., 2008, Supplement No. 5 (E/2008/25), chap. I, sect. B.

4

Ibid., 2013, Supplement No. 5 (E/2013/25), chap. I, sect. B.

5

Ibid., 2014, Supplement No. 5 (E/2014/25), chap. I, sect. B.