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The Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) was held in Istanbul, Turkey on the 20th anniversary of the first Habitat Conference in Vancouver, Canada. The Secretary- General of Habitat II was Wally N’Dow. The objectives for Habitat II were: (1) in the long term, to arrest the deterioration of global human settlement conditions and ultimately create the conditions for achieving improvements in the living environment of all people on a sustainable basis; and (2) to adopt a general statement of principles and commitments and formulate a related Global Plan of Action capable of guiding national and international efforts through the first two decades of the next century.