A/RES/62/198
United Nations
Distr.: General
22 February 2008
General Assembly
Sixty-second session
Agenda item 55
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2007
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/62/420)]
62/198. 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 its resolutions 3327 (XXIX) of
19 December 1977, 34/115 of 14 December
21 December 2001, 57/275 of 20 December
23 December 2003, 59/239 of 22 December 2004,
61/206 of 20 December 2006,
16 December 1974, 32/162 of
1979, 56/205 and 56/206 of
2002, 58/226 and 58/227 of
60/203 of 22 December 2005 and
Taking note of Economic and Social Council resolutions 2002/38 of 26 July
2002 and 2003/62 of 25 July 2003 and Council decisions 2004/300 of 23 July 2004,
2005/298 of 26 July 2005, 2006/247 of 27 July 2006 and 2007/249 of 26 July 2007,
Recalling the goal contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration 1 of
achieving a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slumdwellers by 2020 and the goal contained in the Plan of Implementation of the World
Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”) 2 to
halve, by 2015, the proportion of people who lack access to safe drinking water and
sanitation,
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Recalling also the Habitat Agenda, 3 the Declaration on Cities and Other
Human Settlements in the New Millennium, 4 the Johannesburg Plan of
Implementation and the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on
Financing for Development, 5
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1
See resolution 55/2.
Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August–
4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum), chap. I, resolution
2, annex.
3
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), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.
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Resolution S-25/2, annex.
5
Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18-22 March
2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
2
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