At its 7th plenary meeting, on 14 February 2019, the Economic and Social Council, recalling General Assembly resolutions 70/299 of 29 July 2016, entitled “Follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the global level”, and 72/305 of 23 July 2018, entitled “Review of the implementation of General Assembly resolution 68/1 on the strengthening of the Economic and Social Council”, and Council decision 2017/208 of 23 November 2016 on the themes of the 2017, 2018 and 2019 sessions of the Council, decided to change the theme of the 2019 session of the Council in line with that of the 2019 high-level political forum on sustainable development, convened under the auspices of the Council, namely, “Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality”.
