A/RES/58/227 United Nations Distr.: General 25 February 2004 General Assembly Fifty-eighth session Agenda item 101 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2003 [on the report of the Second Committee (A/58/491)] 58/227. Rules of procedure of the Governing Council of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 32/162 of 19 December 1977, in which it established the Commission on Human Settlements and the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat), Recalling also its resolution 56/206 of 21 December 2001, in which it decided to transform the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) into the secretariat of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), and the Commission on Human Settlements into the Governing Council of UN-Habitat, a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly, Having considered the recommendation of the Governing Council, in its resolution 19/1 of 9 May 2003, 1 that the General Assembly adopt its draft rules of procedure as contained in the annex to that resolution, and the oral statement by the Chairman of the Working Group on Rules of Procedure of the Governing Council, 2 Adopts the draft rules of procedure of the Governing Council of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) as contained in the annex to Governing Council resolution 19/1.1 78th plenary meeting 23 December 2003 _______________ 1 2 03 50814 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 8 (A/58/8), annex I. Ibid., annex II, appendix IV.