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15. Welcomes the high priority assigned by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
to activities relating to the right to development, and urges the Office of the High Commissioner to continue
implementing Commission on Human Rights resolution 1998/72 of 22 April 1998;4
16. Invites the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to follow and review
progress made in the promotion and implementation of the right to development and to submit annual reports
to the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights and to provide interim reports to the openended working group and the independent expert on the right to development containing details on:
(a) The activities of her Office relating to the implementation of the right to development, as contained
in her mandate;
(b) The implementation of resolutions of the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights
with regard to the right to development;
(c) The coordination among the relevant entities of the United Nations system, within their respective
mandates, in the implementation of relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Commission on
Human Rights in this regard;
17. Notes the efforts undertaken by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights, within its mandate, with relevant entities of the United Nations system to promote the realization of
the right to development, and stresses the need for the Office of the High Commissioner to keep
Governments fully informed of and involve them in those initiatives, as appropriate;
18. Calls upon Member States and the Office of the High Commissioner to ensure that the open-ended
working group on the right to development convenes its first session, as a matter of urgency, no later than
17 December 1999;
19. Urges Member States, the Secretary-General and the United Nations system, in particular the
Office of the High Commissioner, fully to support the follow-up mechanism established for the
implementation of the right to development;
20. Reaffirms the need for the Office of the High Commissioner to take appropriate measures aimed
at promoting universal public awareness of the right to development through, inter alia, the dissemination
of the Declaration on the Right to Development;
21. Invites the open-ended working group, inter alia, to consider the question of elaborating a
convention on the right to development;
22. Calls upon the independent expert on the right to development to submit comprehensive reports
to the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session and the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-sixth
session on, inter alia, the effects of poverty, structural adjustment, globalization, financial and trade
4
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1998, Supplement No. 3 (E/1998/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
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