A/RES/58/173 Fourth World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference in Doha in November 2001, 10 and welcoming the World Trade Organization General Council decision of 30 August 2003 on the implementation of paragraph 6 of the Declaration, 11 1. Urges States to take steps, individually and through international assistance and cooperation, especially economic and technical, to the maximum extent of their available resources, with a view to achieving progressively, by all appropriate means, the full realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including, in particular, the adoption of legislative measures; Calls upon the international community to continue to assist the 2. developing countries in promoting the full realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including through financial and technical support as well as training of personnel, while recognizing that the primary responsibility for promoting and protecting all human rights rests with States; Calls upon States to guarantee that the right of everyone to the enjoyment 3. of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health will be exercised without discrimination of any kind; Reaffirms that the achievement of the highest attainable level of health is 4. a most important worldwide social goal, the realization of which requires action on the part of many other social and economic sectors in addition to the health sector; Affirms that good governance at all levels, sound economic policies and 5. solid democratic institutions responsive to the needs of the people are also key to the full realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; Calls upon States to pay special attention to the situation of vulnerable 6. groups, including by the adoption of positive measures, in order to safeguard the full realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; Also calls upon States to place a gender perspective at the centre of all 7. policies and programmes affecting women’s health; 8. Further calls upon States to protect and promote sexual and reproductive health as integral elements of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; Invites States to consider signing and ratifying the World Health 9. Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control;9 10. Takes note with interest of the interim report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; 12 11. Also takes note with interest of the approach proposed by the Special Rapporteur to encompass the responsibilities of States at all levels in his future work on how to evaluate the progressive realization of the right of everyone to the highest _______________ 10 WT/MIN(01)/DEC/2. Available from http://docsonline.wto.org. WT/L/540. Available from http://docsonline.wto.org. 12 E/CN.4/2003/58. 11 3