Resolution nº E/RES/2015/35 of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. 22-07-2015

• Date: 22 July 2015
• Issuer: Economic and Social Council of the United Nation

United Nations E/RES/2015/35

Economic and Social Council Distr.: General

10 September 2015

2015 session

Agenda item 11 (b)

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Resolution adopted by the Economic and Social Council on 23 July 2015

[on a proposal considered in plenary meeting (E/2015/L.23), as revised]

2015/35. Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries

for the Decade 2011–2020

The Economic and Social Council

,

Recalling

the Istanbul Declaration

1

and the Programme of Action for the Least

Developed Countries for the Decade 2011–2020,

2

adopted by the Fourth United

Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, held in Istanbul, Turkey,

from 9 to 13 May 2011, and endorsed by the General Assembly in resolution 65/280

of 17 June 2011, in which the Assembly called upon all the relevant stakeholders to

commit to implementing the Programme of Action,

Reaffirming

the overarching goal of the Istanbul Programme of Action of

overcoming the structural challenges faced by the least developed countries in order

to eradicate poverty, achieve the internationally agreed development goals and

enable graduation from the least developed country category,

Recalling

its resolution 2014/29 of 25 July 2014 on the Istanbul Programme

of Action,

Recalling also

General Assembly resolution 69/231 of 19 December 2014,

Noting

the theme of the 2015 annual ministerial review, “Managing the

transition from the Millennium Development Goals to the sustainable development

goals: what it will take”, and the theme of the high-level political forum on

sustainable development convened under the auspices of the Economic and Social

Council, “Strengthening integration, implementation and review: the high-level

political forum on sustainable development after 2015”,

Noting also

the holding of the ministerial meeting of Asia-Pacific least

developed countries on graduation and the post-2015 development agenda in

Kathmandu from 16 to 18 December 2014 and the ministerial meeting of African

least developed countries on structural transformation, graduation and the post-2015

development agenda in Milan, Italy, from 8 to 10 June 2015,

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1 Report of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Istanbul, Turkey,

9–13 May 2011 (A/CONF.219/7), chap. I.

2 Ibid., chap. II.