A/RES/74/237. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2019

• Resolution Number: A/RES/74/237
• Year: 2019
• Session: 74th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

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Seventy -fourth ses sion

Agen da item 22 (d)

Eradica tion of pove rty and othe r development issues:

eradica ting rural p overty to im plement the 2030 Agenda

for Sust ainable Dev elopment

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

on 19 December 2019

[on th e report of the Seco nd Comm ittee (A/ 74/3 84/Ad d.4 )]

74/237. Eradicating rural poverty to imple ment t he 203 0 Agenda

for Sustainable Dev elopment

The General Assembly ,

Reca llin g its re solutio n 73/244 of 2 0 Decembe r 2018, ent itled “Er adicati ng rural

pove rty to i mplement the 20 30 Agenda for Sus tainable Develo pment ”,

Reaf firm ing its resolut ion 70/1 of 25 Septe mber 2015, entitle d “Tr ansformi ng

our worl d: t he 2 030 A genda for Susta inable Deve lopment ”, 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 D evelop ment Goa ls and tar gets, its commi tment to working tireless ly for

the f ull impl ementati on of th e A genda by 2030, i ts recog nition t hat eradi cating

pove rty i n al l its for ms an d di mension s, in cluding extr eme poverty, is the greates t

glob al cha llenge and an in dispens able r equirem ent fo r sus taina ble de velopme nt, it s

comm itment to achie ving sustain able develo pment in its three dime nsions –

econ omic, social and envir onmenta l – in a ba lanced and integr ated manner, and to

buil ding up on the achie vements of t he Mil lennium Devel opment Goals and s eekin g

to ad dress t heir unfi nished business ,

Reaf firming als o its resoluti on 69/313 of 27 Jul y 2 015, on the Addis Ababa

Acti on Agenda of the Th ird Inter nationa l Confer ence on F inancin g for Dev elopmen t,

whic h is a n integ ral par t of t he 2030 Agenda for Sus tainabl e Devel opment, suppor ts

and comple ments it , helps to co ntextual ize its means of imp lementa tion ta rgets wi th

conc rete pol icies a nd actio ns, and reaffir ms the s trong p olitical commit ment to

addr ess the challen ge of fi nancing and crea ting an enablin g envir onment a t all le vels

for s ustainab le deve lopment in the spirit of global partner ship and solidar ity,