A/RES/S-25/2. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly

• Resolution Number: A/RES/S-25/2
• Year: 2001
• Session: Special
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation
• Subject Matter: Human settlements

United Nations A/RES/S-25/2

General Assembly Distr.: General

16 August 2001

Twenty-fifth special session

Agenda items 8, 9 and 10

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

[without reference to a Main Committee (A/S-25/7/Rev.1)]

S-25/2. Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in

the New Millennium

The Genera l Assembly

Adopts the Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New

Millennium annexed to the present resolution.

6th plenary meeting

9 June 2001

Annex

Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium

We, the representatives of Governments, being guided by the purposes and

principles of the Charter of the United Nations, meeting at the special session of the

General Assembly to review the implementation of the Habitat Agenda,

1

to

recognize progress and to identify obstacles and emerging issues, reaffirm our will

and commitment to implement fully the Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements

2

and the Habitat Agenda and decide on further initiatives, in the spirit of the United

Nations Mille nnium Declar ation.

3

The Istanbul Declaration and the Habitat Agenda

will remain the basic framework for sustainable human settlements development in

the years to come.

Therefore, we:

A

Renewing the commitments made at the United Nations Conference on Human

Settlements (Habitat II)

1. Reaffirm that human beings are at the centre of our concern for

sustainable development and that they are the ba sis for our actions taken in the

implementation of the Habitat Agenda;

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 See resolution 55/2.