A/RES/70/210
United Nations
Distr.: General
17 February 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 21
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2015
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/70/473)]
70/210. 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 the outcomes of the United Nations Conference on Human
Settlements, held in Vancouver, Canada, in 1976, 1 and the second United Nations
Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), held in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1996, 2
Recalling also relevant resolutions of the General Assembly on the
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), including its resolutions 64/207 of 21 December 2009,
65/165 of 20 December 2010, 66/207 of 22 December 2011, 67/216 of 21 December
2012, 68/239 of 27 December 2013 and 69/226 of 19 December 2014, which
addressed the convening in 2016 of the United Nations Conference on Housing and
Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III),
Recalling further relevant decisions and resolutions of the Economic and
Social Council on the coordinated implementation of the Habitat Agenda, including
Council resolution 2015/34 of 22 July 2015 on human settlements, adopted by the
Council at its 2015 session,
Reaffirming the outcome document, entitled “The future we want”, of the
United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, from 20 to 22 June 2012, 3 in particular paragraphs 134 to 137 on sustainable
cities and human settlements, in which, inter alia, it is recognized that cities are
engines of economic growth, which, if well planned and developed, including
through integrated planning and management approaches, can promote
economically, socially and environmentally sustainable societies,
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1
See Report of Habitat: United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Vancouver, 31 May–11 June
1976 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.76.IV.7 and corrigendum).
2
See Report of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), Istanbul, 3–14 June
1996 (A/CONF.165/14), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
3
Resolution 66/288, annex.
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