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(g) To undertake a dialogue with the World Bank with regard to the right to development, including
initiatives, policies, programmes and activities that can promote the right to development, and to inform
Member States on a regular basis of the progress made in such a dialogue;
(h) To involve relevant entities of the United Nations, such as those participating in the Executive
Committee on Economic and Social Affairs, to promote and advocate the right to development and its
realization, especially at the international level;
21. Requests the Commission on Human Rights:
(a) To invite the independent expert appointed by the Chairman of the Commission to include in his
study on the current state of progress in the implementation of the right to development proposals for
measures that could be taken for the more effective realization of the right to development at the national and
international levels, and to submit his studies to the General Assembly;
(b) To invite the follow-up mechanism, inter alia, to consider the question of elaborating a convention
on the right to development;
22. Encourages all States to address, within the declarations and programmes of action adopted by the
relevant international conferences convened by the United Nations, elements for the promotion and protection
of the right to development;
23. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report on the implementation of the present resolution
to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session;
24. Decides to consider this question at its fifty-fourth session under the sub-item entitled “Human
rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms”.
85th plenary meeting
9 December 1998