Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies (1999), para. 11
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Also bearing in mind that democracy, development and respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms are interdependent and mutually reinforcing and that democracy is based on the freely expressed will of the people to determine their own political, economic, social and cultural systems and on their full participation in all aspects of their lives,