A/HRC/11/10 page 18 60. In addition to the foregoing instruments, which are legally binding on their States parties, there are a number of other instruments that have been adopted by various United Nations bodies (especially the United Nations Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly) that highlight the adverse impact of external debt on the enjoyment of human rights and evince the political commitment of the international community to the enhancement of international cooperation in the field of human rights. These political commitments reinforce the obligations of States under international human rights law concerning, inter alia, international assistance and cooperation. 61. Article 3 (3) of the Declaration on the Right to Development proclaims the duty of States “to cooperate with each other in ensuring development and eliminating obstacles to development” and that “States should realize their rights and fulfil their duties in such a manner as to promote a new international economic order based on sovereign equality, interdependence, mutual interest and cooperation among all States, as well as to encourage the observance and realization of human rights” (see General Assembly resolution 41/128). 62. In paragraph 10 of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the World Conference on Human Rights reaffirmed “the right to development, as established in the Declaration on the Right to Development, as a universal and inalienable right and an integral part of fundamental human rights” and in paragraph 12 called “upon the international community to make all efforts to help alleviate the external debt burden of developing countries, in order to supplement the efforts of the Governments of such countries to attain the full realization of the economic, social and cultural rights of their people”. In paragraph 13, the Conference recognized “a need for States and international organizations, in cooperation with non-government organizations, to create favourable conditions at the national, regional and international levels to ensure the full and effective enjoyment of human rights”. 63. The Vienna Declaration, in paragraph 13, essentially calls for a holistic approach to human rights by calling upon States to “eliminate all violations of human rights and their causes, as well as obstacles to the enjoyment of these rights”. 64. Finally, the Millennium Declaration, from which the eight MDGs were drawn, not only makes substantial reference to human rights; it also underscores that international cooperation is an essential element of the global response to the debt crisis. In paragraph 13 of the Declaration, States committed themselves “to an open, equitable, rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory multilateral trading and financial system” and, in paragraph 16, they expressed their resolve “to deal comprehensively and effectively with the debt problems of low- and middle-income developing countries, through various national and international measures designed to make their debt sustainable in the long term”. In paragraph 28, the States resolved to “take special measures to address the challenges of poverty eradication and sustainable development in Africa, including debt cancellation”. 65. Overarching MDG 8 places additional responsibility on the international community to assist and contains a specific commitment to an “enhanced programme of debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries and cancellation of official bilateral debt, and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction”.