A/RES/72/226
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
25 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 20
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2017
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/72/421)]
72/226.
Implementation of the outcomes of the United Nations
Conferences on Human Settlements and on Housing
and Sustainable Urban Development and strengthening
of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme
(UN-Habitat)
The General Assembly,
Recalling the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly on the
implementation of the outcomes of the United Nations Conferences on Human
Settlements (Habitat II) and on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development
(Habitat III) 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, 70/210 of 22 December
2015 and 71/235 of 21 December 2016,
Reaffirming its resolution 71/256 of 23 December 2016, entitled “New Urban
Agenda”, in which it endorsed the New Urban Agenda, adopted by the United Nations
Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development ( Habitat III), held in
Quito from 17 to 20 October 2016, as contained in the annex to the above-mentioned
resolution,
Reaffirming also its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled
“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ”, in which
it adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and
transformative Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to
working tirelessly for the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition
that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty,
is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable
development, its commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three
dimensions — economic, social and environmental — in a balanced and integrated
17-23300 (E)
300118
*1723300*