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4.
Also takes note of the report of the Working Group on the Right to
Development on its twelfth session;5
5.
Decides:
(a)
To continue to act to ensure that its agenda promotes and advances
sustainable development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and,
in this regard, lead to raising the right to development, as set out in paragraphs 5 and 10 of
the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, to the same level and on a par with all
other human rights and fundamental freedoms;
(b)
To take note of the conclusion of the Working Group on the need to further
consider, revise and refine the right to development criteria and operational sub-criteria
contained in the report of the high-level task force on the implementation of the right to
development on its sixth session;6
(c)
To endorse the recommendations of the Working Group on the Right to
Development as outlined in its report;
(d)
To invite Governments, groups of Governments, regional groups and other
relevant stakeholders, including United Nations agencies, funds and programmes and
institutions, as well as other relevant multilateral institutions and forums, to submit further
detailed comments and proposals on the right to development criteria and operational subcriteria;
(e)
To request the Office of the High Commissioner to make available on its
website, and to make available to the Working Group at its next session, in the format of
two conference room papers, all written submissions by Governments, groups of
Governments and regional groups, as well as inputs by other stakeholders;
(f)
To invite the Chairperson/Rapporteur of the Working Group to hold informal
consultations with Governments, groups of Governments, regional groups and relevant
stakeholders and to report thereon to the Working Group at its next session;
(g)
That the criteria and corresponding operational sub-criteria mentioned in subparagraph (b) above, once considered, revised and endorsed by the Working Group, should
be used, as appropriate, in the elaboration of a comprehensive and coherent set of standards
for the implementation of the right to development;
(h)
That the Working Group shall take appropriate steps to ensure respect for and
the practical application of the above-mentioned standards, which could take various forms,
including guidelines on the implementation of the right to development, and evolve into a
basis for consideration of an international legal standard of a binding nature through a
collaborative process of engagement;
6.
Encourages the High Commissioner to pursue her efforts, in fulfilment of her
mandated responsibility, 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.
Encourages relevant bodies of the United Nations system, within their
respective mandates, including the United Nations funds, programmes and specialized
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