A/RES/71/313 United Nations Distr.: General 10 July 2017 General Assembly Seventy-first session Agenda items 13 and 117 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 6 July 2017 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/71/L.75)] 71/313. Work of the Statistical Commission pertaining to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development The General Assembly, Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, by which the General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Reaffirming also the pledge that no one will be left behind in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, that the 2030 Agenda is people -centred, universal and transformative, that the Sustainable Development Goals and targets are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development – economic, social and environmental – and that it is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity that also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom, to be implemented by all countries and stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership, and reaffirming further all the principles recognized in the Agenda and that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, Recalling that, in its resolution 70/1, the General Assembly decided that the Sustainable Development Goals and targets will be followed up and rev iewed using a set of global indicators developed by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators, Recalling also that, in the same resolution, the General Assembly agreed that the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the high-level political forum on sustainable development will be informed by an annual progress report on the Sustainable Development Goals to be prepared by the Secretary-General in cooperation with the United Nations system, based on the global indicator framework, as agreed by the Statistical Commission, Emphasizing the need for quality, accessible, timely and reliable disaggregated data to help with the measurement of progress and to ensure that no one is left behind, Reaffirming the need for the strengthening of national data systems and evaluation programmes in developing countries, 17-11371 (E) *1711371* Please recycle