A/HRC/RES/31/4 cooperate with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the fulfilment of his mandate with regard to the implementation of the right to development, Recognizing that Member States should cooperate with each other in ensuring development and eliminating lasting obstacles to development, that the international community should promote effective international cooperation, in particular a global partnership for development, for the realization of the right to development and the elimination of obstacles to development, and that lasting progress towards the implementation of the right to development requires effective development policies at the national level, as well as equitable economic relations and a favourable economic environment at the international level, Stressing that, in General Assembly resolution 48/141 of 20 December 1993, the Assembly decided that the responsibility of the High Commissioner shall be, among others, to promote and protect the realization of the right to development and to enhance support from relevant bodies of the United Nations system for that purpose, Welcoming the contribution of the universal periodic review mechanism to the realization of the right to development, Recalling that the thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development presents a unique opportunity for the international community to demonstrate and reiterate its unequivocal commitment to the right to development, recognizing the high profile it deserves, and redoubling its efforts to implement this right, and encouraging Member States to convene, individually and collectively, events with their own resources for the commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development, Welcoming the decision of the General Assembly to convene a one-day high-level segment of the Assembly, in the margins of the general debate of the Assembly at its seventy-first session, in order to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development,2 1. Welcomes the thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development, and stresses the importance of the mandate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights with regard to the promotion and protection of the realization of the right to development, while fully recognizing its distinct nature and intrinsic value; 2. Acknowledges the work of the High Commissioner for the commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development, and notes with interest the factsheet published thereon in January 2016;3 3. Decides to convene, at its thirty-second session, a panel discussion on the promotion and protection of the right to development as part of the celebrations of the thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development; 4. Invites the High Commissioner to liaise with States and all stakeholders, including relevant United Nations bodies, agencies, funds and programmes, treaty bodies, special procedure mandate holders, national human rights institutions and civil society, with a view to ensuring their participation in the panel discussion; 5. Requests the High Commissioner to prepare a summary report on the panel discussion and to submit it to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-third session, and 2 3 2 See General Assembly resolution 70/155. Fact Sheet No. 37: Frequently Asked Questions on the Right to Development.