United Nations
A/RES/59/185
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 March 2005
Fifty-ninth session
Agenda item 105 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2004
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/59/503/Add.2)]
59/185. The right to development
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, which expresses, in particular,
the determination to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger
freedom, as well as to employ international mechanisms for the promotion of the
economic and social advancement of all peoples,
Recalling that the Declaration on the Right to Development, adopted by the
General Assembly in its resolution 41/128 of 4 December 1986, confirmed that the
right to development is an inalienable human right and that equality of opportunity
for development is a prerogative both of nations and of individuals who make up
nations, and that the individual is the central subject and beneficiary of
development,
Stressing that the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action 1 reaffirmed the
right to development as a universal and inalienable right and an integral part of
fundamental human rights, and the individual as the central subject and beneficiary
of development,
Reaffirming the objective of making the right to development a reality for
everyone, as set out in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, adopted by the
General Assembly on 8 September 2000, 2
Welcoming the framework modalities agreed 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, 3
Welcoming 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
_______________
1
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
See resolution 55/2.
3
See World Trade Organization, document WT/L/579. Available from http://docsonline.wto.org.
2
04-48736