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Underlining that the successful implementation of the Sustainable Development
Goals will require the strengthening of a new, more equitable social and international order
in which all human rights and fundamental freedoms can be fully realized, as envisioned in
article 28 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
Stressing the primary responsibility of States for the creation of national and
international conditions favourable to the realization of the right to development,
Recognizing that Member States should cooperate with each other in ensuring
development and eliminating lasting obstacles to development, that the international
community should promote effective international cooperation, in particular global
partnerships for development, for the realization of the right to development, and that lasting
progress towards the implementation of the right to development requires, inter alia, effective
development policies at the national level, equitable economic relations and a favourable
economic environment at the international level,
Urging all Member States to engage constructively in discussions for the full
implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development with a view to overcoming
the existing political impasse within the Working Group on the Right to Development in
order that it may fulfil, at the earliest, its mandate as established by the Commission on
Human Rights in its resolution 1998/72 and the Human Rights Council in its resolution 4/4,
Stressing that, in its resolution 48/141 of 20 December 1993, the General Assembly
decided that the responsibility of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
shall be, among others, to promote and protect the realization of the right to development,
and to enhance support from relevant bodies of the United Nations system for that purpose,
and in its annual resolution on the right to development, the Assembly reaffirms its request
to the High Commissioner, in mainstreaming the right to development, to effectively
undertake activities aimed at strengthening the global partnership for development among
Member States, development agencies and international development, financial and trade
institutions,
Recognizing the need for independent perspectives and expert advice to strengthen the
work of the Working Group and to support the efforts of Member States to realize fully the
right to development, including in the context of the implementation of the Sustainable
Development Goals,
Noting with appreciation the submission of the draft legally binding instrument on the
right to development with commentaries by the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group, as
mandated by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 39/9 of 27 September 2018,2
Welcoming the discussions held by the Working Group at its twentieth session on how
a legally binding instrument would contribute to making the right to development a reality
for all by creating conducive national and international conditions for its realization and by
halting all measures that may have a negative impact on the right to development, in
accordance with the Charter, the Declaration on the Right to Development and other relevant
international instruments and documents,
Welcoming also the holding of the open-ended discussion by the Chairmanship of the
Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, with multi-stakeholder participation, in Geneva on 12
February 2020, about the right to development and possible ways of achieving its practical
implementation,
Reaffirming Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the
Council, and 5/2, on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate Holders of the
Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that the mandate holder shall discharge the duties of
the mandate in accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
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Reaffirms its commitment to effectively integrate the right to development into
its work and that of its mechanisms in a systematic and transparent manner;
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