United Nations General Assembly A/RES/56/205 Distr.: General 26 February 2002 Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 102 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Second Committee (A/56/565)] 56/205. 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 the Habitat Agenda 1 and the Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements 2 adopted in Istanbul in 1996, Recalling also the report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole of the twenty-fifth special session of the General Assembly, on an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), held in New York from 6 to 8 June 2001, 3 Stressing the importance of the Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium, 4 which was adopted by the General Assembly at its twenty-fifth special session, Recognizing the need for renewed political will and for the mobilization and allocation of new and additional resources at the national and international levels in order to achieve full and accelerated implementation of the Habitat Agenda and the Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium, Reiterating that strengthened international cooperation is an essential element for the effective implementation of the Habitat Agenda and the Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium, _______________ 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 Ibid., annex I. 3 Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-fifth Special Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/S-25/7/Rev.1). 4 See resolution S-25/2, annex. 01 49321