A/RES/70/210. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2015

• Resolution Number: A/RES/70/210
• Year: 2015
• Session: 70th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

A/RES/70/210

General Assembly

Distr.: General

17 February 2016

Seventieth session

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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 o f the United Natio ns

Confere nce on Human Settlements (Habitat II) a nd

strengthening of the United Nations Human

Settlements Progra mme (U N-Habitat)

The General Assembly ,

Reca lling the ou tcomes o f the Un ited Nati ons C onferen ce on H uman

Sett lements, he ld in Vanco uver, Canad a, i n 1 976,

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and th e se cond Unite d N ations

Conf erence o n Human Settle ments ( Habitat II), held in Istan bul, Turke y, in 199 6,

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Reca lling a lso rel evant resol utions of the Gene ral As sembly on the

impl ementati on o f the out come of the Un ited Natio ns C onferen ce on Hu man

Sett lements (Habita t II) and strengt hening of the United Nations Human Settleme nts

Prog ramme (UN -Habitat ), includi ng its resol utions 64/ 207 of 21 D ecember 2 009,

65/1 65 of 2 0 Decemb er 201 0, 66/2 07 of 2 2 Dece mber 20 11, 67/2 16 of 2 1 Decemb er

2012 , 68/ 239 o f 27 Decembe r 20 13 a nd 69 /226 of 19 D ecember 201 4, wh ich

addr essed t he co nvening in 20 16 of the U nited Nations Confer ence on Hou sing a nd

Sust ainable Urban D evelopme nt (Ha bitat III),

Reca lling furthe r rel evant d ecision s and reso lutions of the Econ omic a nd

Soci al Cou ncil on the coordin ated i mplement ation of the Habita t Agen da, in cluding

Coun cil r esoluti on 20 15/34 of 22 Jul y 20 15 o n hu man settleme nts, adopted by the

Coun cil at i ts 2015 session ,

Reaf firmi ng the o utcome d ocument , entitl ed “The future we wa nt”, of the

Unit ed Nations Conferen ce on Susta inable De velopme nt, held in Ri o de Janeiro ,

Braz il, fro m 20 t o 22 J une 20 12,

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in particu lar par agraphs 134 to 1 37 on sustain able

citie s and human se ttlemen ts, in which, in ter alia, it is re cognized t hat cities ar e

engi nes of econo mic gr owth, whic h, if well plann ed and devel oped, inclu ding

thro ugh inte grated p lanning and mana gement a pproach es, can prom ote

econ omicall y, so cially and envi ronment ally sus tainable societi es,

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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.

A/RES/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)

2/22

Reaf firming a lso its re solution 70/ 1 of 2 5 Septe mber 201 5, en titled

“Tran sforming our w orld: t he 2030 Agend a for Sustaina ble Dev elopmen t”, in which

it adop ted a compre hensive , f ar-reach ing and peop le-centr ed set of unive rsal and

tran sformati ve S ustainab le D evelopm ent Goals a nd ta rgets, its c ommitme nt to

work ing tir elessly for the f ull imp lementa tion of t his Age nda by 203 0, its

reco gnition that era dicating pover ty in all its forms and dimen sions, inclu ding

extr eme p overty, is the g reatest glob al ch allenge and an indisp ensable requ irement

for sustai nable develo pment, its commit ment to ac hieving sust ainable devel opment

in i ts thr ee dime nsions — e conomic, socia l and environ mental — in a ba lanced and

integ rated man ner, a nd to buil ding upon the ac hieveme nts o f the Mil lennium

Deve lopment Goals a nd seek ing to a ddress their u nfinishe d busine ss,

Reca lling that t his n ew 20 30 A genda for Sustaina ble D evelopme nt, inter alia,

ackn owledges the impo rtance o f making cities an d human s ettlemen ts inclus ive,

safe, resilie nt and s ustaina ble,

Reaf firmi ng its resoluti on 69 /313 of 2 7 July 2015 on th e Add is Ab aba A ction

Agen da of t he Thir d Inter national Confer ence on Financ ing for Develop ment, w hich

is an integra l pa rt of the 203 0 Ag enda for Sustai nable Develo pment, supp orts and

comp lements it, helps t o context ualize i ts means o f imple mentati on target s with

conc rete po licies a nd actio ns, and reaffir ms the stron g politi cal com mitment to

addr ess the challeng e of fi nancing and cre ating an enabli ng envir onment at all l evels

for s ustainab le deve lopment in the spirit of global partner ship an d soli darity,

Reca lling that the Addis Ababa Acti on Ag enda acknowl edges, inter alia , tha t

expe nditures and invest ments in sus tainabl e deve lopment are being devolv ed to the

subn ational level , whi ch of ten l acks adequat e tec hnical and techno logical capac ity,

fina ncing an d suppor t, and recall ing also the co mmitmen t therei n to scal ing up

inter nationa l coopera tion to str engthen t he capaci ties of mu nicipali ties and ot her

local author ities,

Reit erati ng the im portanc e o f the wid e part icipatio n of all re levant

stake holders , inc luding l ocal auth orities, in t he p romotion of s ustaina ble

urba nization and settle ments, a nd stressi ng the imp ortance o f ensurin g that suc h

part icipatio n is b alanced, taking into account the t ype, th e dime nsion a nd the region

of th e partic ipants,

Taking n ote of th e report of the G overnin g Counci l of the Un ited Nat ions

Huma n Sett lements Progr amme (UN-Ha bitat) on its twen ty-fifth sessi on, he ld fro m

17 to 23 Apri l 20 15,

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and its reso lutions cont ained therei n, i n pa rticular res olution

25/1,

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in w hich the Govern ing Coun cil enco uraged m ember Sta tes, amo ng other

thin gs, to cons ider t he imp ortant role that sus tainable urban ization and hum an

settl ements can pla y as a key dri ver of sustain able de velopmen t in th eir nat ional a nd

subn ational develop ment pla ns,

Stres sing th e impo rtance of in clusivene ss wi thin t he Uni ted N ations

deve lopment syste m and that no cou ntry i s left behin d in the im plement ation of the

prese nt reso lution,

Reca lling its re solution 67/1 48 of 20 D ecember 2012 , in which it c alled upon

the United Nation s syste m, incl uding t he fun ds an d prog rammes and th e speci alized

agen cies, t o incr ease ef forts t o full y mains tream a gend er per spective into all is sues

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4

Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 8 (A/70/8).

5

Ibid., annex.