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(b) To also promote effective partnerships such as the New Partnership for
Africa’s Development9 and other similar initiatives with the developing countries,
particularly the least developed countries, for the purpose of the realization of their
right to development, including the achievement of the Millennium Development
Goals;
(c) To strive for greater acceptance, operationalization and realization of the
right to development at the international level, while urging all States to undertake
at the national level the necessary policy formulation and to institute the measures
required for the implementation of the right to development as a fundamental human
right, and also urging all States to expand and deepen mutually beneficial
cooperation in ensuring development and eliminating obstacles to development in
the context of promoting effective international cooperation for the realization of
the right to development, bearing in mind that lasting progress towards the
implementation of the right to development requires effective development policies
at the national level as well as equitable economic relations and a favourable
economic environment at the international level;
(d) To consider ways and means to ensure the operationalization of the right
to development as a priority, including through further consideration of the
elaboration of a convention on the right to development;
(e) To mainstream the right to development in the policies and operational
activities of the United Nations and the specialized agencies, programmes and
funds, as well as in policies and strategies of the international financial and
multilateral trading system, taking into account in this regard that the core principles
of the international economic, commercial and financial spheres, such as equity,
non-discrimination, transparency, accountability, participation and international
cooperation, including effective partnerships for development, are indispensable in
achieving the right to development and preventing discriminatory treatment arising
out of political or other non-economic considerations, in addressing the issues of
concern to the developing countries;
Recognizes the relevance of the request to the Subcommission on the
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Promotion and Protection of Human Rights or its successor expert advice
mechanism to pursue its ongoing work on the right to development, in accordance
with the relevant provisions of General Assembly and Commission on Human
Rights resolutions, and in compliance with decisions to be taken by the Human
Rights Council, and requests the Secretary-General to report on progress in this
regard to the Assembly at its sixty-second session;
Invites Member States and all other stakeholders to participate actively in
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future sessions of the Social Forum, while recognizing the strong support extended
to the Forum at its previous three sessions by the Subcommission on the Promotion
and Protection of Human Rights;
10. Reaffirms the commitment to implement the goals and targets set out in
all the outcome documents of the major United Nations conferences and summits
and their review processes, in particular those relating to the realization of the right
to development, recognizing that the realization of the right to development is
critical to achieving the objectives, goals and targets set in those outcome
documents;
11. Also reaffirms that the realization of the right to development is essential
to the implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action,3 which
regards all human rights as universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated,
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