注意到全球 46%以上的农村人口贫困，而全球城市贫困人口则约为 16%，45亿人靠粮食体系谋生，强调 COVID-19 大流行影响可持续发展，致使世界各地生活贫困的人数增加，并且除其他外扰乱开放市场的正常运作、全球供应链的互连互通和必需品的流动，阻碍消除贫困的斗争，因而更迫切需要呼吁加紧行动，消除一切形式和表现的贫困，特别是在大多数极端贫困者居住的农村地区，在这方面欢迎“聚焦可持续发展目标”活动强调贫困问题，并欢迎大会第七十四届会议主席发起消除贫困联盟，此举及时而有意义，是继续交流消除贫困的想法、政策和最佳做法的平台，强调指出在这些论坛上讨论农村贫困问题很重要，因为农村贫困人口可能更无法作好应对 COVID-19 危机影响的准备，更缺少获得适当环卫条件、保健服务、教育、互联网、信息和通信技术、社会保障和公共基础设施的机会，
Noting that over 46 per cent of the global rural population is poor, compared with approximately 16 per cent of the global urban population, and that 4.5 billion people depend on food systems for their livelihoods, emphasizing that the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on sustainable development have increased the number of people living in poverty around the world and disrupted, inter alia, the normal functioning of open markets, global supply chain connectivity and the flow of essential goods, hindering the fight against poverty and adding urgency to the call to galvanize action and delivery for the eradication of poverty, in all its forms and dimensions, particularly in rural areas, where most of the extreme poor live, in this regard welcoming the Sustainable Development Goals Moment placing an emphasis on poverty and the efforts of the President of the General Assembly at its seventy-fourth session to launch the Alliance for Poverty Eradication, which is timely and meaningful and continues to serve as a platform for the exchange of ideas, policies and best practices on poverty eradication, and stressing the importance of addressing the rural poverty issue in these forums, as the rural poor might be less prepared to deal with the effects of the COVID-19 crisis and could have less access to adequate sanitation, health-care services, education, the Internet, information and communications technology, social protection and public infrastructure,