A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/52/190 4 February 1998 Fifty-second session Agenda item 97 (e) RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Second Committee (A/52/628/Add.5)] 52/190. Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 51/177 of 16 December 1996, in which it endorsed the Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements1 and the Habitat Agenda,2 adopted by the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) at Istanbul, on 14 June 1996, Cognizant of the importance of maintaining the momentum already generated at the national, regional and international levels for the implementation of measures designed to address the economic, social and environmental consequences of rapid urbanization, Stressing the need to improve conditions of shelter, access to safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and basic social services in both rural and urban areas, Recalling paragraph 218 of the Habitat Agenda, in which the Conference requested the General Assembly to consider holding a special session in the year 2001 for an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of the outcome of Habitat II, and paragraph 15 of resolution 51/177, in which the Assembly reaffirmed that a decision on the matter should be taken at its fifty-second session, Noting the delay in the submission of the report of the Secretary-General on the final comprehensive and in-depth assessment of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) with a view to its revitalization, as called for in paragraph 19 of resolution 51/177, and stressing that that has constrained consideration by the Assembly of those issues, 1 A/CONF.165/14, chap. I, resolution 1, annex I. 2 Ibid., annex II. 98-76597 /...