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[Title] Report of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals established pursuant to General Assembly resolution 66/288 (A/68/L.61)

[Place]
[Date] September 8, 2014
[Source] United Nations General Assembly
[Notes] 14-60619 (E)
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8 September 2014

Original: English

Sixty-eighth session

Agenda item 14

Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields

Draft resolution submitted by the President of the General Assembly

Report of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals established pursuant to General Assembly resolution 66/288

The General Assembly,

Recallingthe outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled "The future we want", contained in resolution 66/288 of 27 July 2012, in which Heads of State and Government, inter alia, resolved to establish an inclusive and transparent intergovernmental process on sustainable development goals open to all stakeholders, with a view to developing global sustainable development goals to be agreed by the General Assembly,

1.Acknowledges the conclusion of the work of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, and welcomes its report;*1*

2.Decides that the proposal of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals contained in the report shall be the basis for integrating sustainable development goals into the post-2015 development agenda, while recognizing fully that other inputs may also be considered in this intergovernmental negotiation process at the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly.

{*1* See A/68/970. Reservations by Member States to the report of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals are referred to in A/68/970, sect. III, para. 13.}