A/RES/60/157
Reaffirming
also
the
universality,
indivisibility,
interrelatedness,
interdependence and mutually reinforcing nature of all civil, cultural, economic,
political and social rights, including the right to development,
Recalling the framework modalities agreed to at the General Council meeting of
the World Trade Organization in Geneva on 1 August 2004 in key areas such as
agriculture, market access for non-agricultural products, trade facilitation,
development and services, 5
Recalling also the outcome of the eleventh session of the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development, held at São Paulo, Brazil, from 13 to 18 June
2004, on the theme “Enhancing the coherence between national development
strategies and global economic processes towards economic growth and development,
particularly of developing countries”, 6
Recalling further all its previous resolutions and those of the Commission on
Human Rights on the right to development, in particular Commission resolution
1998/72 of 22 April 1998, 7 on the urgent need to make further progress towards the
realization of the right to development as set out in the Declaration on the Right to
Development,
Recalling the Thirteenth Conference of Heads of State or Government of NonAligned Countries, held at Kuala Lumpur from 20 to 25 February 2003, and the
Fourteenth Ministerial Conference of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, held
at Durban, South Africa, from 17 to 19 August 2004,
Reiterating its continuing support for the New Partnership for Africa’s
Development 8 as a development framework for Africa,
Recognizing that historical injustices have undeniably contributed to the
poverty, underdevelopment, marginalization, social exclusion, economic disparity,
instability and insecurity that affect many people in different parts of the world, in
particular in developing countries,
Stressing that poverty eradication is one of the critical elements in the
promotion and realization of the right to development and that poverty is a
multifaceted problem that requires a multifaceted and integrated approach in
addressing economic, political, social, environmental and institutional dimensions at
all levels, especially in the context of the millennium development goal of halving, by
2015, the proportion of the world’s people whose income is less than one dollar a day
and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger,
Endorses the agreed conclusions and recommendations adopted by the
1.
Working Group on the Right to Development at its sixth session, 9 and calls for their
immediate, full and effective implementation by the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights and other relevant actors;
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5
See World Trade Organization, document WT/L/579. Available from http://docsonline.wto.org.
See TD/412.
7
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1998, Supplement No. 3 (E/1998/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
8
A/57/304, annex.
9
See E/CN.4/2005/25, sect. III.
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