A/RES/71/239. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2016

• Year: 2016
• Resolution Number: A/RES/71/239
• Session: 71st
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

A/RES/71/239

General Assembly

Distr.: General

26 January 2017

Seventy-first session

Agenda item 22 (b)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2016

[on the report of the Second Committee (A/71/466 (Add.2))]

71/239 . Follow-up to the second U nited Nation s Confe rence

on Landlocked De velopi ng Cou ntries

The General Assembly ,

Reca lling the Vie nna Decla ration and the Vienna Pr ogramme of Action f or

Land locked Deve loping Count ries for the Decade 2014 –2024 ,

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ado pted at th e

seco nd United Na tions Con ference on L andlock ed Devel oping Cou ntries, hel d in

Vienna fr om 3 to 5 Novem ber 2014, at whic h all relevan t s takehold ers expres sed

their commit ment to the imp lementat ion of t he Prog ramme o f Action,

Reaf firmi ng the overarc hing g oal of the Vienna Progra mme o f Actio n of

addr essing the special deve lopment needs and chall enges of la ndlocked deve loping

count ries arisi ng from thei r landlock edness, re motenes s and geogra phical

cons traints in a more coher ent ma nner and th us co ntributi ng to an e nhanced rate of

sust ainable and in clusive growth , whic h can contrib ute to the er adicati on of poverty

in al l its fo rms and dimensi ons, inc luding e xtreme poverty,

Reca lling its resolut ions 70 /197 and 70/217 of 22 Decem ber 201 5,

Reaf firmi ng its resolu tion 70/1 of 2 5 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 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 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, its

comm itment to achi eving susta inable deve lopment in its thr ee d imensio ns —

econ omic, social and e nvironme ntal — in a bal anced and in tegrated mann er, 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 firming al so its resol ution 69/3 13 of 27 July 2015 o n the Addis A baba

Acti on Agenda of the Thir d Inte rnationa l Con ference o n Fin ancing for

Deve lopment , wh ich is an integr al p art of the 2030 Age nda for Susta inable

Deve lopment , suppor ts and c ompleme nts it, h elps to context ualize i ts means of

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Resolution 69/137, annexes I and II.