A/RES/71/256*
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
25 January 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 20
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2016
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/71/L.23)]
71/256. New Urban Agenda
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 67/216 of 21 December 2012, in which it decided to
convene the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban
Development (Habitat III), as well as its resolutions 68/239 of 27 December 2013,
69/226 of 19 December 2014 and 70/210 of 22 December 2015,
1.
Expresses its profound gratitude to the Government and the people of
Ecuador for hosting the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable
Urban Development (Habitat III) from 17 to 20 October 2016 and for providing all
the necessary support;
2.
Endorses the New Urban Agenda adopted by the United Nations
Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), which is
contained in the annex to the present resolution.
68th plenary meeting
23 December 2016
Annex
New Urban Agenda
Quito Declaration on Sustainable Cities and Human
Settlements for All
1.
We, Heads of State and Government, Ministers and High Representatives,
have gathered at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban
Development (Habitat III) from 17 to 20 October 2016 in Quito, with the
participation of subnational and local governments, parliamentarians, civil society,
indigenous peoples and local communities, the private sector, professionals and
practitioners, the scientific and academic community, and other relevant
stakeholders, to adopt a New Urban Agenda.
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