A/HRC/12/29 page 4 A. Implementation of the recommendations of the Working Group on the Right to Development at its ninth session 6. In accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 9/3, which endorsed the recommendations of the ninth session of the Working Group on the Right to Development, OHCHR has assisted the task force in the implementation of the relevant recommendations. 7. The Working Group recommended that under phase II (2008) of its three phase workplan, the task force continue dialogue with the African Peer Review Mechanism, the joint Economic Commission for Africa/Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development-Development Assistance Committee (ECA/OECD-DAC) Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness, the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the Cotonou Agreement; give priority to access to essential medicines in developing countries and for this purpose conduct a desk review of the Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property (IGWG); and apply the criteria to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) and the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR). The task force was also requested to invite the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) to consider entering into a dialogue, subject to an agreement on the scope of such a dialogue. 8. For phase III (2009), the Working Group recommended that the task force consider the thematic issues of debt relief and transfer of technology. On debt relief, the task force was requested to engage in a dialogue with the institutions responsible for the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative, subject to their agreement, and on technology transfer, to examine the Clean Development Mechanism of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Development Agenda of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). 9. OHCHR provided organizational, research and analytical support to the technical missions conducted by the high-level task force to open a dialogue with IGWG, the Global Fund and TDR. OHCHR also supported the technical mission to follow-up on its dialogue on the Cotonou Agreement with the Directorates-General for Trade and Development of the European Commission and the Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States. In the context of these dialogues, OHCHR commissioned and directed research on the application of the right to development criteria to the partnerships concerned. B. Fifth session of the high-level task force on the implementation of the right to development 10. The fifth session of the high-level task force was held from 1 to 9 April 2009 in Geneva. The task force has continued to facilitate a constructive dialogue amongst all participants, including task force members, experts who have prepared commissioned studies, representatives of institutional members of the task force, and representatives of organizations involved in the selected partnerships. Member States and non-governmental organizations participated as observers. The task force considered the status of implementation of its workplan for the period 2008-2010 endorsed by the Human Rights Council in resolution 9/3 and in this context, reviewed