Special Session of the General Assembly for an Overall Review and Appraisal of the Implementation of the Habitat Agenda

A/RES/53/180View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 93c Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), published in 1999.

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8 subjects

Conferences Extrabudgetary Financing Human Settlements Least Developed Countries Participants Regional Commissions Specialized Agencies Work Organization

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Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General2 concerning the modalities for the special session of the General Assembly for an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of the Habitat Agenda;

Decides that the special session for an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) will be held in June 2001 for a period of three working days;

Reaffirms that the special session will be undertaken on the basis of and with full respect for the Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements⁴ and the Habitat Agenda1 and that there will be no renegotiation of the existing agreements contained therein;

⁴Report of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), Istanbul, 3–14 June 1996 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.97.IV.6), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I.

Decides to invite States members of the specialized agencies that are not members of the United Nations to participate in the work of the special session in the capacity of observers;

Also decides that the Commission on Human Settlements, which is currently scheduled at its seventeenth and eighteenth sessions to focus on monitoring the implementation of the Habitat Agenda and assessing its impact, should serve as the preparatory committee for the special session;

Further decides that the Commission, meeting as the preparatory committee for the special session, shall be open-ended to allow full participation of all States;

Stresses the need for the effective participation of local authorities, other Habitat Agenda partners and relevant actors of civil society, in particular the private sector and non-governmental organizations, in the preparations for the special session, as well as the need to ensure appropriate arrangements, taking into account the practice and experience gained at the Habitat II Conference, for their substantive contributions to and active involvement in the preparatory meetings and the special session, and invites the President of the General Assembly, in consultation with Member States, to propose to Member States appropriate modalities for their effective involvement in the special session;

Invites Governments to play an active role in the preparatory process, inter alia, through an intensified exchange of experiences, and welcomes the proposals received so far from Singapore to hold an international conference on model cities, from 19 to 21 April 1999, and from Germany to hold an international conference, entitled “Urban 21”, in 2000;

Invites the Commission on Human Settlements, serving as the preparatory committee, to meet for two working days back-to-back with its forthcoming seventeenth session in order, inter alia, to elect its officers, adopt appropriate rules of procedure and consider the organization of work for its first substantive session, to be held at Nairobi for five working days in May 2000, and invites the preparatory committee, at its first substantive session, to consider the modalities, duration, date and agenda for the second substantive session, to be held in 2001;

Invites the Economic and Social Council to devote its coordination segment in 2000 to human settlements issues and the implementation of the Habitat Agenda;

Also invites the Economic and Social Council actively to promote and coordinate the role of the regional commissions in the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Habitat Agenda at the regional and subregional levels;

Invites the regional commissions, within their mandates and in cooperation with regional intergovernmental organizations and banks, to consider convening high-level meetings to review the progress made in implementing the outcome of the Conference and to report the results of their review to the Economic and Social Council;

Requests other relevant organizations and agencies of the United Nations system and the funds and programmes, consistent with their respective mandates, to contribute, as appropriate, to the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Habitat Agenda at the national, regional and global levels;

Requests the Secretary-General to seek extrabudgetary resources to assist developing countries, in particular the least developed countries, to send representatives to the sessions of the preparatory committee and the special session of the General Assembly in June 2001 for an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of the Habitat Agenda;

Also requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session the sub-item entitled “Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II)”.

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