A/HRC/14/37 Welcoming the efforts of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to develop partnerships for the implementation of its activities to enhance national capacities of States in the region to promote and protect human rights, Welcoming the Bali Action Points concluded at the fourteenth Workshop on Regional Cooperation for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the AsiaPacific Region, held from 10 to 12 July 2007, which served as a basis to reflect on the progress and achievements made under the Asia-Pacific Framework, including the four Tehran pillars, and to define further priorities for regional cooperation for the promotion and protection of human rights, Reaffirming the fact that regional arrangements play an important role in promoting and protecting human rights and should reinforce universal human rights, as recognized in international human rights instruments, Welcoming the establishment of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, and encouraging it to play an active role in the promotion and protection of human rights in the South-East Asian region, Welcoming also the convening of the fifteenth annual workshop on Regional Cooperation for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific region, held in Bangkok from 21 to 23 April 2010, and the adoption of the Bangkok Action Points, 1. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a report containing the conclusions of the fifteenth annual Workshop on Regional Cooperation for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific region, and to submit it to the Council for its consideration at its fifteenth session; 2. Decides to convene the next session of the Workshop in Maldives in 2012. 34th meeting 17 June 2010 [Adopted without a vote.] 14/9 Promotion of the enjoyment of the cultural rights of everyone and respect for cultural diversity The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and all other relevant human rights instruments, Recalling also all relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council, including Assembly resolutions 64/81 of 7 December 2009 and 64/174 of 18 December 2009, and Council resolution 10/23 of 26 March 2009, by which it established, for a period of three years, a special procedure entitled “independent expert in the field of cultural rights”, Taking note of the declarations within the United Nations system on cultural diversity and international cultural cooperation, in particular the Declaration of the Principles of International Cultural Cooperation and the Universal Declaration on Cultural 24 GE.12-17781