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(b) An assessment of the Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific
States-European Community economic partnership agreements and other such
agreements with a view to making recommendations, if necessary, relating to the
implementation of the right to development, in the light of preparation for the
second review of the Cotonou Agreement;
(c) A return visit to the Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health,
Innovation and Intellectual Property to discuss specific recommendations of the
consultant that the task force has endorsed.
107. The task force also recommends that a dialogue be opened with:
(a) The WIPO Development Agenda with a view to providing input to the
Conference on Intellectual Property and Global Challenges to be held in Geneva on
13 and 14 July 2009, including by participating in it;
(b) The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on the clean
development mechanism and to consider contributing to the Climate Change
Conference in December 2009. In anticipation of that dialogue, the task force
proposes that a study be commissioned on the right to development issues that arise
in the context of climate change, including whether and how the poorest countries
benefit from the clean development mechanism and suggestions regarding criteria
and subcriteria theron.
108. The task force reiterates the utility of holding a dialogue with MERCOSUR, and
proposes, after receiving the official invitation from MERCOSUR, a technical mission to
attend a meeting of high officers from human rights and ministries of foreign affairs of
MERCOSUR countries, to explore experiences and best practices of MERCOSUR and
Associate States on the implementation of the right to development.
109. The task force proposes to collect and analyse information on the Heavily-Indebted
Poor Countries and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiatives, through appropriate
consultations with the World Bank and IMF and subject to their agreement, with a view to
identifying the ways these programmes contribute to the implementation of the right to
development.
B.
Further development and refinement of the criteria
110. While recognizing that the ongoing application of the criteria through a dialogue
with the institutions responsible for the identified partnerships contributes to the
improvement of criteria and to promoting the implementation of the right to development,
the task force gives highest priority to improving the criteria with a view to submitting, in
2010, a final set of criteria serving the purposes set out in relevant provisions of Council
resolution 9/3.
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