UNITED NATIONS	HS
	Commission on Human Settlements	Distr. LIMITED HS/C/17/L.12 10 May 1999 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH

The Commission on Human Settlements,

Recalling General Assembly resolution 52/191 of 18 December 1997, on the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000, by which the Assembly adopted a plan of action for the implementation of the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000 for the period 1998-1999, 1/ requesting the Commission on Human Settlements to set in motion the undertaking of a terminal review at its eighteenth session,

Recalling also General Assembly resolution 52/192 of 18 December 1997, on the follow-up to the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and the future role of the Commission on Human Settlements, which has incorporated reporting on the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000 in the reporting on the implementation of the Habitat Agenda,

Taking note with satisfaction that many Governments have reviewed and reformulated national shelter strategies based on the principles of the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000 and incorporated these principles into their national plans of action for the implementation of the Habitat Agenda,

Having considered the report of the Executive Director on the implementation of the Habitat Agenda, 2/ which covers also topics on adequate shelter for all and implementation of the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000,

1. Reconfirms that, at its eighteenth session, the Commission on Human Settlements shall carry out the terminal review of the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000, and decides to report the results of the terminal review to the General Assembly at its special session for the purpose of an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of the Habitat Agenda, for final consideration and conclusion;

2. Requests Governments to prepare terminal reports on the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000, as part of their preparation for the special session of the General Assembly for the purpose of an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of the Habitat Agenda, to be held in June 2001;

3. Also requests the Executive Director to conduct a review of the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000 within the framework of implementation of the Habitat Agenda and to incorporate the results of the review, including suggestions for the future, into the report to the Commission at its eighteenth session.
 

1/    Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 8 (A/52/8/Add.1), annex.

2/    HS/C/17/3