External Debt Sustainability and Development

A/RES/70/190View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 18c External 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

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/123	External debt sustainability and development	6,468	82%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/197	External debt sustainability and development	6,278	93%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/137	External debt sustainability and development	6,136	80%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/153	External debt sustainability and development	5,519	84%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/193	External debt sustainability and development	5,267	88%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

10 reports · 2010–2019

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2019	A/74/234	External debt sustainability and development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/73/221
2018	A/73/180	External debt sustainability and development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/72/204
2017	A/72/253	External debt sustainability and development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/71/216
2016	A/71/276	External debt sustainability and development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/70/190
2015	A/70/278	External debt sustainability and development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/69/207

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Debt Relief Development Finance External Debt

What’s in this document?

4 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;¹

¹A/70/278.

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;

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;

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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