United Nations General Assembly A/RES/59/239 Distr.: General 24 February 2005 Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 86 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2004 [on the report of the Second Committee (A/59/484)] 59/239. Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and 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, 57/275 of 20 December 2002 and 58/226 and 58/227 of 23 December 2003, Taking note of Economic and Social Council resolutions 2002/38 of 26 July 2002 and 2003/62 of 25 July 2003 and Council decision 2004/300 of 23 July 2004, Recalling the Habitat Agenda 1 and the Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium, 2 Taking into account the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development 3 and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”), 4 as well as the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development, 5 Recalling the goal contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration 6 of achieving a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slumdwellers by 2020, as proposed in the Cities Without Slums Initiative, and recalling further the goal contained in the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation to halve, by _______________ 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 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 1, annex. 4 Ibid., resolution 2, annex. 5 Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18–22 March 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex. 6 See resolution 55/2. 04-49060