A/RES/69/207 GA

United Nations A/RES/69/207 General Assembly Distr.: General 21 January 2015 Sixty-ninth session Agenda item 17 (c) 14-67769 (E) *1467769* Please recycle Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2014 [on the report of the Second Committee (A/69/466/Add.3)] 69/207. External debt sustainability and development The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 58/203 of 23 December 2003, 59/223 of 22 December 2004, 60/187 of 22 December 2005, 61/188 of 20 December 2006, 62/186 of 19 December 2007, 63/206 of 19 December 2008, 64/191 of 21 December 2009, 65/144 of 20 December 2010, 66/189 of 22 December 2011, 67/198 of 21 December 2012 and 68/202 of 20 December 2013, Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration, adopted on 8 September 2000,1 and the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals and its outcome document,2 Recalling further its resolution 57/270 B of 23 June 2003 on the integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic and social fields, Recalling the 2005 World Summit Outcome,3 Recalling also its resolution 60/265 of 30 June 2006 on the follow-up to the development outcome of the 2005 World Summit, including the Millennium Development Goals and the other internationally agreed development goals, Recalling further the International Conference on Financing for Development and its outcome document4 and the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus and its outcome document, the Doha Declaration on Financing for Development,5 Recalling the Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development and its outcome document,6 _______________ 1 Resolution 55/2. 2 Resolution 65/1. 3 Resolution 60/1. 4 Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18–22 March 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex. 5 Resolution 63/239, annex. 6 Resolution 63/303, annex. A/RES/69/207 External debt sustainability and development 2/2 Recalling also the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June 2012, and its outcome document, entitled “The future we want”,7 Recalling further its resolution 68/279 of 30 June 2014 on the modalities for the third International Conference on Financing for Development, to be held in Addis Ababa from 13 to 16 July 2015, Recalling its resolution 68/304 of 9 September 2014, in which it decided to define the modalities for the intergovernmental negotiations and the adoption of the text of the multilateral legal framework for sovereign debt restructuring processes at the main part of its sixty-ninth session, before the end of 2014,8 Stressing the need for effective coordination and coherence in order to build synergies with other relevant United Nations intergovernmental processes, 1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;9 2. Emphasizes the special importance of a timely, effective, comprehensive and durable solution to the debt problems of developing countries to promote their economic growth and development; 3. Stresses the importance of the continued substantive consideration of the sub-item entitled “External debt sustainability and development”; 4. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventieth session a comprehensive report on the issue; 5. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventieth session, under the item entitled “Macroeconomic policy questions”, the sub-item entitled “External debt sustainability and development”. 75th plenary meeting 19 December 2014 _______________ 7 Resolution 66/288, annex. 8 See resolution 69/247. 9 A/69/167.

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