United Nations
A/RES/55/195
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 January 2001
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 94 (e)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/55/581/Add.5)]
55/195. Preparations for the special session of the General
Assembly for an overall review and appraisal of the
implementation of the outcome of the United Nations
Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II)
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 48/162 of 20 December 1993, 50/227 of 24 May
1996, 51/177 of 16 December 1996, 52/190 of 18 December 1997, 53/180 of
15 December 1998, 54/207 of 22 December 1999 and 54/209 of 22 December 1999,
Recalling also Economic and Social Council decision 1999/281 of 30 July
1999, and taking note of agreed conclusions 2000/1 of the Economic and Social
Council concerning the implementation of the outcome of the United Nations
Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) 1 and the United Nations Millennium
Declaration, 2
Acknowledging the efforts made to secure extrabudgetary resources to defray
the costs of the participation of representatives of developing countries, in particular
the least developed countries, in the sessions of the Preparatory Committee for the
special session of the General Assembly for an overall review and appraisal of the
implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human
Settlements (Habitat II) and the special session itself in June 2001, as requested in
paragraph 14 of resolution 53/180, and noting with concern that the response has not
been adequate,
Taking note of the report of the Commission on Human Settlements acting as
the Preparatory Committee for the special session, on its first substantive session,
held at Nairobi from 8 to 12 May 2000, 3
Taking note also of the report of the Secretary-General on the coordinated
implementation by the United Nations system of the Habitat Agenda, 4
1
A/55/3, chap. V, para. 6. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fifth
Session, Supplement No. 3.
2
Resolution 55/2.
3
A/55/121.
4
A/55/83-E/2000/62.
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