United Nations
A/RES/71/235
General Assembly
Distr.: General
20 January 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 20
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2016
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/71/464)]
71/235. Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations
Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban
Development (Habitat III) 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, held in Vancouver, Canada, in 1976, 1 the second United Nations
Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), held in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1996, 2
and the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development
(Habitat III), held in Quito from 17 to 20 October 2016, 3
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), including its resolutions 56/206 of 21 December 2001,
65/165 of 20 December 2010, 66/207 of 22 December 2011, 67/216 of 21 December
2012, 68/239 of 27 December 2013, 69/226 of 19 December 2014 and 70/210 of
22 December 2015,
Recalling further relevant decisions and resolutions of the Economic and
Social Council on the coordinated implementation of the Habitat Agenda, including
Council resolution 2016/24 of 27 July 2016 on human settlements, adopted by the
Council at its 2016 session,
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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 (A/CONF.165/14), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
3
Resolution 71/256, annex.
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