A/HRC/RES/30/28
session and decide on further action thereafter, with the objective of elaborating a
comprehensive and coherent set of standards for the implementation of the right to
development;
12.
Acknowledges the need to have the contributions of experts, regrets the low
attendance of invited experts from international organizations at the sixteenth session of the
Working Group, and in this context urges their broader engagement;
13.
Also acknowledges the recommendation of the Working Group at its
sixteenth session to discuss the post-2015 development agenda in the context of the right to
development, and urges all relevant United Nations agencies, international organizations,
civil society and other stakeholders to contribute actively to these deliberations and the
further recommendation of the Working Group to the Office of the High Commissioner;
14.
Decides:
(a)
To continue to act to ensure that its agenda promotes and advances
sustainable development and the achievement of the remaining Millennium Development
Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals, and in this regard lead to raising the right to
development, as set out in paragraphs 5 and 10 of the Vienna Declaration and Programme
of Action, to the same level and on a par with all other human rights and fundamental
freedoms;
(b)
To endorse the recommendations of the Working Group adopted at its
sixteenth session;
(c)
That the Working Group will continue, at its seventeenth session, to
accomplish its mandate, including to complete its second reading of the draft right to
development criteria and corresponding operational subcriteria and to consider the
document containing the draft set of standards requested in paragraph 10 above for the
elaboration of a comprehensive and coherent set of standards for the implementation of the
right to development;
(d)
That the Working Group shall take appropriate steps to ensure respect for and
practical application of the comprehensive and coherent set of standards, which could take
various forms, including guidelines on the implementation of the right to development, and
evolve into a basis for consideration of an international legal standard of a binding nature
through a collaborative process of engagement;
(e)
To convene a two-day formal meeting of the Working Group, after the
seventeenth session, to consider further and discuss the document containing the draft set of
standards requested in paragraph 10 above;
15.
Requests, as part of the activities to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of
the Declaration on the Right to Development:
(a)
The High Commissioner to seek the views of Member States in preparing a
paper on the realization and implementation of the right to development, as elaborated in
the Declaration on the Right to Development, in particular its article 4, and submit it to the
Working Group for consideration at its seventeenth session;
(b)
The General Assembly to consider holding a high-level segment on the right
to development during the general debate at its seventy-first session;
16.
Encourages Member States to convene, individually and collectively, events
with their own resources for the commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the
Declaration on the Right to Development;
17.
Also encourages Member States to pay particular consideration to the right to
development in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
4