United Nations General Assembly A/RES/58/226 Distr.: General 25 February 2004 Fifty-eighth session Agenda item 101 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2003 [on the report of the Second Committee (A/58/491)] 58/226. Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and the strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 3327 (XXIX) of 16 December 1974, 32/162 of 19 December 1977, 34/115 of 14 December 1979, 56/205 and 56/206 of 21 December 2001 and 57/275 of 20 December 2002, Taking note of Economic and Social Council resolutions 2002/38 of 26 July 2002 and 2003/62 of 25 July 2003, Recalling the Habitat Agenda 1 and the Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium, 2 Recalling also the goal contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration 3 of achieving a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers by 2020, as proposed in the Cities Without Slums Initiative, and recalling further the goal contained in the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”) 4 to halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of people who are unable to reach or afford safe drinking water and the proportion of people who do not have access to basic sanitation, Taking into account the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development 5 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation, as well as the _______________ 1 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. 2 Resolution S-25/2, annex. 3 See resolution 55/2. 4 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. 5 Ibid., resolution 1, annex. 03 50808