A/HRC/RES/49/8 Stressing that, in General Assembly resolution 48/141 of 20 December 1993, the 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, Welcoming the contribution of the universal periodic review mechanism to the realization of the right to development, Stressing that the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development presents a significant opportunity for the international community to demonstrate and reiterate its unequivocal commitment to the right to development, recognizing the high profile it deserves, and redoubling its efforts to implement this right, 1. Welcomes the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development and stresses the importance of the mandate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights with regard to the promotion and protection of the realization of the right to development, while fully recognizing its distinct nature and intrinsic value; 2. Decides to convene, at its fifty-second session, a full-day high-level meeting, in a hybrid format and fully accessible to persons with disabilities, with sign language interpretation and webcast, on the promotion and protection of the right to development as a celebration of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development, and requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to organize the high-level meeting; 3. Invites the High Commissioner to liaise with all States and stakeholders, including relevant United Nations bodies, agencies, funds and programmes, treaty bodies, special procedure mandate holders, national human rights institutions and civil society, with a view to ensuring their participation in the high-level meeting; 4. Requests the High Commissioner to prepare a summary report on the highlevel meeting and to submit it to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-fourth session; 5. Encourages all Member States to engage constructively in all discussions for the full implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development. 55th meeting 31 March 2022 [Adopted by a recorded vote of 33 to 0, with 14 abstentions. The voting was as follows: In favour: Argentina, Armenia, Benin, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Cameroon, China, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Eritrea, Gabon, Gambia, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Libya, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritania, Mexico, Namibia, Nepal, Pakistan, Paraguay, Qatar, Russian Federation, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Abstaining: Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Marshall Islands, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Republic of Korea, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America] 2