A/RES/55/195 1. Welcomes the appointment of the new Executive Director of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat); 2. Requests the Secretary-General to consider further strengthening of the Centre through the provision of the requisite support and stable, adequate and predictable financial resources, including by proposing additional regular budget resources and sufficient human resources, as envisaged by the General Assembly in its resolutions 52/220 of 22 December 1997 and 53/242 of 28 July 1999, for the consideration of the Assembly, with due regard for proper United Nations budgetary procedures; 3. Decides that the special session shall be held from 6 to 8 June 2001 at United Nations Headquarters in New York; 4. Also decides that the special session shall have a plenary, an ad hoc committee of the whole and a thematic committee, the details of which shall be worked out by the Preparatory Committee at its second session; 5. items: Further decides that the provisional agenda shall include the following (a) Review and appraisal of progress made in the implementation of the Habitat Agenda; 5 (b) Further actions and initiatives for overcoming obstacles to the implementation of the Habitat Agenda; (c) A declaration on cities and other human settlements in the new millennium; 6. Reiterates its invitation to Member States to participate in the special session at the highest political level possible and, in the meantime, to continue to extend support to the preparatory process; 7. Also reiterates its invitation to States members of the specialized agencies of the United Nations that are not Members of the United Nations, as well as Palestine, in their capacity as observers, to participate in the special session in accordance with the rules and procedures of the General Assembly; 8. Invites other entities having a standing invitation to participate in the United Nations as observers to participate in the special session in accordance with the rules and procedures of the General Assembly; 9. Decides to invite the footnoted associate members 6 of the regional commissions to participate as observers in the special session and its preparatory process, subject to the rules of the General Assembly; 10. Requests the Secretary-General to consider defraying the costs not covered by General Assembly resolution 1798 (XVII) of 11 December 1962 of the participation of one governmental representative from each least developed country in the special session and the cost of their participation in the second session of the Preparatory Committee through the use of extrabudgetary resources and, in the 5 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. 6 American Samoa, Anguilla, Aruba, British Virgin Islands, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Guam, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Niue, Puerto Rico and United States Virgin Islands. 2