UN General Assembly
2014

In its resolution 68/6, the General Assembly decided that it would at the present session discuss the post-2015 development agenda, which would then be formally adopted at its seventieth session, in September 2015. The President aptly chose the main theme of the present session to be “Delivering on and implementing a transformative post-2015 development agenda”. In a communication to the recent meeting of the Chief Executives of the agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations, His Holiness requested that future objectives for sustainable development be formulated “with generosity and courage, so that they can have a real impact on the structural causes of poverty and hunger, attain more substantial results in protecting the environment, ensure dignified and productive labour for all and provide appropriate protection for the family, which is an essential element in sustainable human and social development. Specifically, this involves challenging all forms of injustice and resisting the economy of exclusion, the throwaway culture and the culture of death”. In that regard, the Holy See welcomes the 17 sustainable development goals proposed by the