UN General Assembly
2014

In the light of those failures, it is imperative that the post-2015 framework include, first, a time-bound commitment for delivering official development assistance on which commitments have already been made; secondly, a global framework for managing intellectual property rights that places the development imperative at its centre; thirdly, a global trading architecture that recognizes the asymmetries in the global state of development and is suitably responsive to them; fourthly, a framework that ensures that private-sector investment is consistent with the development agenda. The recommendations of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals and of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing provide a good platform on which to build. As we craft a transformative agenda, it will be especially important to ensure that it is flexible enough to address the peculiar needs of some countries. The special circumstances occasioned by the vulnerabilities of small island and low-lying coastal developing States bear particular mention in that regard. Far too often, the progress made can be speedily reversed owing to the impacts of climate change and natural disasters. We