Decides that there shall be a Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000, including a plan of action for its implementation, monitoring and evaluation and that the objective of the Strategy should be to stimulate measures that will facilitate adequate shelter for all by the year 2000; requests the Executive Director of the UN Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) to prepare a proposal for a Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000 and its implementation, including its financial implications, for consideration by the Commission on Human Settlements at its 11th session; requests the Commission on Human Settlements to formulate a Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000, to be drawn up within existing resources, for submission, through the Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly at its 43rd session; urges all Governments to commit themselves to the objectives of the Global Strategy by adopting and implementing shelter strategies in accordance with the guidelines contained in the annex to the resolution and to renew this commitment annually by, inter alia, announcing on World Habitat Day the concrete actions to be taken and targets to be achieved during each successive year.

Adopted without vote, 96th meeting

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Adopted at the 96th plenary meeting, 11 Dec. 1987. "Annex: I. Guidelines for national action; II. Guidelines for international action".
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 42nd session, Volume 1, 15 September-21 December 1987. - A/42/49. - 1988. - p. 159-160. - (GAOR, 42nd sess., Suppl. no. 49).