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External Debt Sustainability and Development

A/RES/70/190No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 18cExternal debt sustainability and development, published in 2016.

What other versions does this mandate have?

17 versions · 2010–2025
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/123
  • 2025A/RES/80/123External debt sustainability and developmentLatestCompare with previous version
  • 2024A/RES/79/197External debt sustainability and developmentCompare with previous version
  • 2023A/RES/78/137External debt sustainability and developmentCompare with previous version
  • 2022A/RES/77/153External debt sustainability and developmentCompare with previous version
  • 2022A/RES/76/193External debt sustainability and developmentCompare with previous version

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 topics
Debt ReliefDevelopment FinanceExternal Debt

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2016.

  • 2016A/71/276External debt sustainability and development report of the Secretary-General

iIdentified automatically from the metadata in each report’s UN Digital Library catalogue record.

What does this mandate say?

4 operative paragraphs
1
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;
2
Decides to devote a special event of the Second Committee during the seventy-first session of the General Assembly to lessons learned from legislative steps taken by certain countries and other appropriate action to reduce the vulnerability of sovereigns to holdout creditors, with the participation of all relevant stakeholders, building on the report to be prepared by the Secretary-General pursuant to the present resolution and resulting in a summary of the event;
3
Encourages the Economic and Social Council, at its annual forum on financing for development follow-up, to consider how to improve sovereign debt restructuring, taking into account the roles of the international financial institutions, including the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and other relevant forums, in accordance with their respective mandates, pursuant to the relevant resolutions on this matter, including its resolution 69/313 on the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development and the mandate of the annual forum on financing for development follow-up set out therein;
4
Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-first session a report on the implementation of the present resolution and to include in the report a comprehensive and substantive analysis of the external debt situation of developing countries and options for enhanced approaches to debt restructuring and resolution mechanisms that take into account the multiple dimensions of debt sustainability, and decides to include, under the item entitled “Macroeconomic policy questions”, the sub-item entitled “External debt sustainability and development” in the provisional agenda of its seventy-first session, unless otherwise agreed in the discussions on the revitalization of the Second Committee.

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