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organizations, including financial and trade organizations, and relevant stakeholders,
including civil society organizations, development practitioners, human rights experts and
the public at all levels, in discussions on the right to development,
Stressing that the responsibility for managing worldwide economic and social issues
and threats to international peace and security must be shared among the nations of the
world and should be exercised multilaterally, and that, in this regard, the central role must
be played by the United Nations as the most universal and representative organization in
the world,
Welcoming the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,1 and
emphasizing that the 2030 Agenda is informed by the Declaration on the Right to
Development and that the right to development provides a vital enabling environment for
the full realization of the Sustainable Development Goals,
Recognizing that achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including
the unmet Millennium Development Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals,
requires effective policy coherence and coordination,
Recognizing also that hunger and extreme poverty, in all its forms and dimensions,
are the greatest global challenges and require the collective commitment of the
international community for their eradication, and therefore calling upon the international
community to contribute to the achievement of that goal, in accordance with the
Sustainable Development Goals,
Emphasizing that all human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right to
development, are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated,
Underlining that the successful implementation of the Sustainable Development
Goals will require the strengthening of a new, more equitable and sustainable national
and international order, and the promotion and protection of all human rights and
fundamental freedoms,
Taking note of the commitment declared by a number of United Nations specialized
agencies, funds and programmes and other international organizations to make the right to
development a reality for all, and in this regard urging all relevant bodies of the United
Nations system and other international organizations to mainstream the right to
development into their objectives, policies, programmes and operational activities, and into
development and development-related processes, including the follow-up to the Fourth
United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries,
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 the
elimination of obstacles to development, and that lasting progress towards the
implementation of the right to development requires effective development policies at the
national level, equitable economic relations and a favourable economic environment at the
international level,
Encouraging all Member States to engage constructively in the discussions for the
full implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development with a view to
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General Assembly resolution 70/1.