A/RES/57/226 7. Invites all international financial and developmental institutions, as well as the relevant United Nations agencies and funds, to give priority to and provide the necessary funding to realize the aim of halving by the year 2015 the proportion of people who suffer from hunger, as well as the right to food as set out in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security6 and in the United Nations Millennium Declaration; 8 8. Urges States to give adequate priority in their development strategies and expenditures to the realization of the right to food; 9. Takes note of the report of the United Nations Children’s Fund entitled The State of the World’s Children, 2002, 9 and recalls that the nurturing of young children merits the highest priority; 10. Takes note with appreciation of the interim report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the right to food, 10 and commends the Special Rapporteur for his valuable work in the promotion of the right to food; 11. Supports the realization of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur as established by the Commission on Human Rights in its resolutions 2000/10 and 2002/25; 12. Expresses its appreciation to the Special Rapporteur for his effective contribution to the medium-term review of the implementation of the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the World Food Summit Plan of Action6 through the submission to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights of his recommendations on all aspects of the right to food, and his participation in and contribution to the proceedings of that event; 13. Welcomes the three expert consultations on the right to food convened by the former High Commissioner and her personal commitment to the promotion and realization of the right to food, and expresses its deep appreciation for the comprehensive report submitted by the former High Commissioner to the World Food Summit: five years later; 14. Welcomes the decision of the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations adopted at its one hundred and twenty-third session, to establish an Intergovernmental Working Group as a subsidiary body of the Committee on World Food Security, with the participation of stakeholders, in the context of the Declaration of the World Food Summit: five years later, to elaborate in a period of two years a set of voluntary guidelines to support the efforts of Member States to achieve the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security, and in this regard stresses that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations will work closely with relevant United Nations bodies, in particular the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Special Rapporteur, as well as the two Rome-based food agencies, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food Programme, noting also the invitation of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to other relevant institutions of the United Nations system, treaty _______________ 8 See resolution 55/2. United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.XX.1. 10 See A/57/356. 9 3