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which the Assembly endorsed the Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and
Implementing Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries,
Recalling resolution 2000/22 of 18 August 2000 on the promotion of dialogue on
human rights issues, adopted by the Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of
Human Rights at its fifty-second session,1
Taking note with appreciation of the final document and declaration adopted at the
Eighteenth Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Movement of Non-Aligned
Countries, held in Baku on 25 and 26 October 2019, in which the Heads of State and
Government reiterated their position, inter alia, that South-South cooperation is a collective
endeavour among peoples and countries of the South based on the principles of solidarity and
on the premises, conditions and objectives that are specific to the historic and political context
of developing countries and to their needs and expectations for the attainment of the
Sustainable Development Goals, and that South-South cooperation is a complement to and
not a substitute for North-South cooperation, and also reiterated that North-South cooperation
is an important element of international cooperation for the sustainable development of the
countries of the South, including through the transfer of technologies, on favourable,
preferential and concessional terms, as mutually agreed,
Recalling the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia
and Related Intolerance held in Durban, South Africa, from 31 August to 8 September 2001,
and the Durban Review Conference held in Geneva from 20 to 24 April 2009, and the
political declarations of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly to commemorate
the tenth and twentieth anniversaries of the adoption of the Durban Declaration and
Programme of Action,2 and their role in the enhancement of international cooperation in the
field of human rights,
Deeply concerned about the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
on States’ implementation of their human rights obligations and commitments, including the
unprecedented challenges and inequalities in access to public services in many parts of the
world,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolutions 46/14 of 23 March 2021 and 49/25 of 1
April 2022, on ensuring equitable, affordable, timely and universal access for all countries to
vaccines in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in which the Council expressed deep
concern about the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the enjoyment of human
rights around the world, and emphasized the importance of human rights in shaping the
response to as well as inclusive recovery from the pandemic,
Recognizing the importance of the universality and indivisibility of all human rights,
of robust and efficient public policies, of adequately resourced and fully functioning services
and of cooperation at the national, regional and international levels for the progressive
realization of all economic, social and cultural rights to address the continuing negative
impact of the COVID-19 pandemic,
Welcoming the global initiatives promoting global solidarity in response to the
pandemic, including the efforts of countries that have supplied COVID-19 vaccines, as well
as the initiatives to support an inclusive recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, and
recalling the thirty-first special session of the General Assembly, in response to the COVID19 pandemic, held on 3 and 4 December 2020, the high-level meeting of the Assembly on
universal health coverage, held on 23 September 2019, and the political declaration of the
high-level meeting, entitled “Universal health coverage: moving together to build a healthier
world”,3
Recognizing with deep concern the impact of high debt levels on countries’ ability to
withstand the impact of the COVID-19 shock, and in this regard reaffirming the need for
enhanced international cooperation and assistance,
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See E/CN.4/2001/2–E/CN.4/Sub.2/2000/46, chap. II, sect. A.
See General Assembly resolutions 66/3 and 76/1.
See General Assembly resolution 74/2.