Athens Declaration for Healthy Cities. International Healthy Cities Conference, Athens, Greece, 23 June 1998

On 23 June 1998, mayors and senior politicians from cities in Europe, meeting in Athens to attend the International Healthy Cities Conference, which celebrated the first ten years of the European Healthy Cities movement and the launching of phase III (1998-2002) of the WHO Healthy Cities project, adopted this Declaration.

This political Declaration expresses the clear and strong commitment of cities throughout Europe to health and sustainable development. The Declaration highlights the priorities and new challenges for cities to address and work on and identifies ways in which national governments and WHO can support action based on health for all at the local and city levels.