United Nations General Assembly A/RES/60/203 Distr.: General 13 March 2006 Sixtieth session Agenda item 53 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2005 [on the report of the Second Committee (A/60/489)] 60/203. 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, 58/226 and 58/227 of 23 December 2003 and 59/239 of 22 December 2004, Taking note of Economic and Social Council resolutions 2002/38 of 26 July 2002 and 2003/62 of 25 July 2003 and Council decisions 2004/300 of 23 July 2004 and 2005/298 of 26 July 2005, Recalling the goal contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration 1 of achieving a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slumdwellers by 2020 and the goal contained in the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”) 2 to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people who lack access to safe drinking water and sanitation, Recalling also the Habitat Agenda, 3 the Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium, 4 the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development, 5 the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation and the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development, 6 _______________ 1 See resolution 55/2. 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 2, annex. 3 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. 4 Resolution S-25/2, annex. 5 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. 6 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. 2 05-49978