United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/55/194
Distr.: General
5 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)]
55/194. Scope to be covered by 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 paragraph 218 of the Habitat Agenda 1 and its resolutions 51/177 of
16 December 1996 on the implementation of the outcome of the United Nations
Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and 53/180 of 15 December 1998 in
which it decided that its special session for an overall review and appraisal of the
implementation of the outcome of the Conference would be held in June 2001 and
that the Commission on Human Settlements should serve as the Preparatory
Committee for the special session,
Taking into account its resolutions 54/208 and 54/209 of 22 December 1999 on
the implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human
Settlements (Habitat II) and on the follow-up to the Conference,
Bearing in mind Commission on Human Settlements resolutions 17/1 and
17/14 of 14 May 1999 on the follow-up to the United Nations Conference on Human
Settlements (Habitat II) and on the preparations for the special session of the
General Assembly for an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of the
Habitat Agenda, 2
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
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
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fourth Session, Supplement No 8 (A/54/8), annex I,
sect. A.
3
A/55/121.
4
A/55/83-E/2000/62.
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