At its 5th plenary meeting, on 23 November 2016, the Economic and Social Council, recalling General Assembly resolution 70/299 of 29 July 2016, entitled “Follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the global level”, and without prejudice to the review by the Assembly of its resolution 68/1 of 20 September 2013, entitled “Review of the implementation of General Assembly resolution 61/16 on the strengthening of the Economic and Social Council”, to be conducted by the Assembly at its seventy-second session, decided that the main themes of the 2017, 2018 and 2019 sessions of the Council would be:
