A/HRC/12/WG.2/TF/2 page 17 67. Consultations on the second review of the Cotonou Agreement, planned for 2010, will be an opportunity to appraise its human rights provisions and consider proposals consistent with the right to development criteria. 68. Because of their dependency on the export of commodities, remittances and foreign aid, African, Caribbean and Pacific countries are particularly vulnerable to rising food prices, declining commodity prices and the ongoing financial crisis, which greatly diminishes their prospects for realizing the right to development. These prospects would be enhanced if countercyclical and economic stimulus measures and effective aid for trade programmes could be put into operation. 69. Current negotiations for the conclusion of additional economic partnership agreements provide an opportunity to consolidate the human rights approach to development as enshrined in the Cotonou Agreement and to ensure that this approach applies to the agreements. The task force is concerned that the regionalization resulting from the agreements risk eroding the general negotiating position of African, Caribbean and Pacific States in their partnership relationship with the European Community. Supporting the development efforts of weaker trading partners should therefore be a priority. 70. The task force considers that the continuing dialogue with the partnership could benefit from the formal presence of the representative of the African, Caribbean and Pacific group of States in its meetings and from a meeting with one of the chief negotiators on behalf of the Caribbean group. Indeed, its mission and assessment of the Cotonou Agreement are not complete as long as it has not ascertained more fully the views of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and particularly its secretariat. Therefore, the task force will return to Brussels in late April 2009 to complete the dialogue. 5. Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property 71. The Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property and the Global Strategy and Plan of Action are a positive development with the potential of contributing significantly to target 8E of the Millennium Development Goals with respect to innovation of and access to health products for diseases in developing countries. 72. The task force attaches particular importance to the congruence between the eight elements of the Global Strategy and Plan of Action, designed to promote innovation, build capacity, improve access, mobilize resources and monitor and evaluate the implementation of the strategy itself, on the one hand, and the duties of States to take all necessary measures to ensure equality of opportunity for all in their access to health services, as required by article 8.1 of the Declaration on the Right to Development, on the other. 73. The Global Strategy and Plan of Action also seek action in a range of areas to achieve the accessibility, affordability and quality of medicines in developing countries as part of the normative content of the right to health. The task force acknowledges and supports the reference made by the Strategy and Plan to the right to health but regrets that it does not refer to the