A/RES/73/243. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2018

• Resolution Number: A/RES/73/243
• Year: 2018
• Session: 73rd
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

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/RES/73 /243

General Assembly

Distr.: Gen eral

24 Janua ry 2019

18-22621 (E) 280119

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Seventy -third session

Agenda i tem 23 (b)

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

on 20 December 2018

[on the report of the Second Commi ttee (A/73/541/Add .2)]

73/243. Follow-up t o the second United Nati ons Conferen ce on Landlocked

Developing Countri es

The Gene ral Assembly,

Recallin g the Vienna Declarat ion and the Vienna Programme of Action for

Landlock ed Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024, adopte d at the sec ond

United Nation s Con ference on Landlocked Developi ng Co untries, held in Vienna

from 3 to 5 Nov ember 2014,

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at wh ich all relevant stak eholders expressed t heir

commitme nt to the impl ementation of t he Programme of Action,

Reaffirm ing the o verarching goal o f the Vienna Progr amme of Action of

addressi ng the special de velopment needs and challenges of land locked dev eloping

countrie s arising from th eir landlockedn ess, remoteness and geographical constraints

in a more coh erent manner and th us contribut ing to an enhanced rate of sustainable

and inclusive growth, which can contribute to t he erad ication of poverty in al l its

forms an d dimensions, i ncluding extre me poverty,

Recallin g its resolut ions 71/239 of 21 D ecember 2016 and 72/232 of

20 December 2017,

Reaffirm ing its res olution 7 0/1 of 25 Se ptember 2 015, enti tled “Tran sforming

our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainabl e Devel opment ”, in which it adopted a

comprehe nsive, far- reaching and people-c entred set of univer sal and transformative

Sustaina ble Development G oals and targets, its commitment t o working tire lessly for

the full i mplementation o f the Ag enda by 2030, its r ecognition that e radicating

poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greates t

global challenge and an indispensa ble requir ement for sustainabl e develo pment, i ts

commitme nt to achi eving su stainable develop ment in it s three di mensions —

economic , social and environ mental — in a balanced and integ rated manner, and to

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Resolution 69/137, annexes I and II.