A/RES/74/232 A. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2019

• Resolution Number: A/RES/74/232 A
• Year: 2019
• Session: 74th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

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Seventy -fourth ses sion

Agen da item 21 (a)

Groups of countries in special s ituations: follow-up to the

Fourth United Natio ns Conferenc e on the Leas t Developed

Countri es

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

on 19 December 2019

[on th e report of the Seco nd Commi ttee (A/ 74/383/Ad d.1 )]

74/232. Follo w-up to the Fourth Uni ted Nations Confere nce on the Least

Develo ped Co untries

The General Assembly ,

Reca llin g t he Ista nbul D eclaratio n

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and the P rogramme of Act ion for the L east

Deve loped C ountries for the Deca de 2011 –2020,

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ado pted at the F ourth Un ited

Nati ons Confe rence on t he Least D evelope d Countr ies, held i n Istanb ul, Turkey, fr om

9 to 13 May 2011, an d endo rsed by the Gen eral Asse mbly i n its r esolutio n 65/28 0 o f

17 June 2011, in whi ch t he As sembly call ed u pon all the relevan t st akehold ers to

comm it to imp lementi ng th e Pro gramme of A ction, and recall ing a lso the P olitical

Decl aration ad opted at the Co mprehen sive H igh-le vel M idterm Rev iew o f the

Impl ementati on of the Istanb ul Pro gramme of A ction for the Least Deve loped

Coun tries for the Decade 2011 –2020, held in Antalya, Turkey, from 27 to 29 May

2016 , and en dorsed b y the Ass embly i n its r esolutio n 70/29 4 of 25 Jul y 2016,

Reaffirm ing the overa rching goal of t he Istan bul Pro gramme of Acti on of

over coming the struc tural c hallenge s faced by th e least develo ped co untries to

erad icate poverty, achie ve the inte rnationa lly a greed develop ment goals and enable

grad uation f rom the least de veloped countr y categor y,

Reaf firming also i ts reso lution 70/1 of 25 Sept ember 2015, enti tled

“Tran sforming our world: the 203 0 Agenda for S ustainab le Deve lopment ”, in which

it adop ted a compre hensive, fa r-reach ing and peop le-cent red set of unive rsal and

tran sformati ve Su stainab le D evelopme nt G oals and ta rgets, its co mmitme nt to

work ing tire lessly f or the f ull impl ementa tion of t he Agend a by 203 0, its r ecogniti on

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Report of the Fourth Unite d Natio ns Con ference on th e Least Devel oped C ountri es, Ist anbul,

Turkey, 9–13 May 20 11 (A/CO NF.21 9/7) , chap . I.

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Ibid., c hap. I I.