A/HRC/RES/45/6 2. Acknowledges the need to strive for greater acceptance, operationalization and realization of the right to development at the international level while urging all States to undertake at the national level the necessary policy formulation and to institute the measures required for the implementation of the right to development as an integral part of all human rights and fundamental freedoms; 3. Stresses that South-South cooperation is a complement to North-South cooperation, and hence should not result in the reduction of North-South cooperation or hamper progress in fulfilling existing official development assistance commitments, and encourages Member States and other relevant stakeholders to incorporate the right to development into the design, financing and implementation of cooperation processes; 4. Welcomes the consolidated report of the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the right to development;3 5. Requests the High Commissioner to continue to submit to the Human Rights Council an annual report on the activities of the Office of the High Commissioner, including on inter-agency coordination within the United Nations system that has direct relevance to the realization of the right to development, and to provide an analysis, taking into account existing challenges to the realization of the right to development, and to make recommendations on how to overcome them and concrete proposals for supporting the Working Group on the Right to Development in fulfilling its mandate; 6. Also requests the High Commissioner to take concrete measures in fulfilment of her mandated responsibility, and to enhance support for the promotion and protection of the realization of the right to development, taking as reference the Declaration on the Right to Development, all resolutions of the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council on the right to development and agreed conclusions and recommendations of the Working Group; 7. Urges the Office of the High Commissioner, in the implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development, to ensure balanced and visible allocation of both financial and human resources to the existing mechanisms within the Office, including the Expert Mechanism of the Right to Development and the Special Rapporteur on the right to development, for the realization of the right to development, also to ensure the visibility of the right to development by identifying and implementing tangible projects dedicated to the right to development, in collaboration with the Expert Mechanism and the Special Rapporteur, and to provide regular updates to the Human Rights Council in this regard; 8. Reiterates the importance of the core principles contained in the conclusions of the Working Group at its third session4 that are congruent with the purpose of international human rights instruments, such as equality, non-discrimination, accountability, participation and international cooperation, as critical to mainstreaming the right to development at the national and international levels, and underlines the importance of the principles of equity and transparency; 9. Stresses the importance of the realization of the mandate of the Working Group, and recognizes the need for renewed efforts with a view to overcoming the existing political impasse within the Working Group so that it may fulfil at the earliest its mandate as established by the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution 1998/72 and the Human Rights Council in its resolutions 4/4 and 39/9; 10. Also stresses the importance of constructive engagement at the twenty-first session of the Working Group, which will consider the draft legally binding instrument on the right to development submitted by the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group; 11. Welcomes the first report of the Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development,5 and requests the Expert Mechanism to implement the recommendations contained in its report and in doing so to pay particular attention to the international 3 4 5 4 A/HRC/45/21. See E/CN.4/2002/28/Rev.1. A/HRC/45/29.