Recalling also General Assembly resolution 56/206 of 21 December 2001, whereby the General Assembly transformed the Commission on Human Settlements into the Governing Council of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly, and decided that the Committee of Permanent Representatives to UN-HABITAT would serve as the intersessional subsidiary body of the Governing Council;
Rappelant également la Déclaration sur les villes et autres établissements humains en ce nouveau millénaire, adoptée par l'Assemblée générale à sa vingt-cinquième session extraordinaire,