United Nations
A/RES/68/239
General Assembly
Distr.: General
5 February 2014
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 20
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 27 December 2013
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/68/439)]
68/239. Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations
Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and
strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements
Programme (UN-Habitat)
The General Assembly,
Recalling the outcomes of the United Nations Conference on Human
Settlements 1 and of the second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements
(Habitat II), 2
Recalling also relevant resolutions of the General Assembly on the
implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human
Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements
Programme (UN-Habitat), as well as relevant decisions and resolutions of the
Economic and Social Council on the coordinated implementation of the Habitat
Agenda,
Recalling further Economic and Social Council resolution 2013/22 of 24 July
2013 on human settlements, adopted by the Council at its substantive session of 2013,
Recalling its resolutions 64/207 of 21 December 2009, 65/165 of 20 December
2010, 66/207 of 22 December 2011 and 67/216 of 21 December 2012, which
addressed the convening in 2016 of a United Nations conference on housing and
sustainable urban development (Habitat III),
Reaffirming the outcome document, entitled “The future we want”, of the
United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, from 20 to 22 June 2012, 3 in particular paragraphs 134 to 137 on sustainable
cities and human settlements, in which, inter alia, it is recognized that cities are
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1
See Report of Habitat: United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Vancouver, 31 May–11 June
1976 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.76.IV.7 and corrigendum).
2
See Report of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), Istanbul, 3–14 June
1996 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.97.IV.6).
3
Resolution 66/288, annex.
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