A/HRC/12/WG.2/TF/2 page 4 to 2015 to bridge the existing implementation gaps. Only a global, equitable, inclusive and stronger multilateral system of international cooperation working in the interests of developed and developing countries alike can generate the kind of collaboration that is needed to achieve internationally recognized goals. 10. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) associated itself with the UNDP statement, noting that the issues on the agenda of the task force are very much at the heart of the mandate and work of UNCTAD. It regarded as a particular achievement that the task force had in recent years broadened the scope of its work. 11. In a statement on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, Cuba highlighted the importance of the operationalization of the right to development, as a priority, including through the elaboration of a convention as reaffirmed at the fourteenth summit of the Movement, in Havana, the inter-summit ministerial conference, in Teheran, and by the General Assembly. The current global economic and financial crises had proven once again the specific vulnerability of developing countries, and the need for them to fully exercise the right to development. The Movement hopes that the task force would be able to further refine the right to development criteria in a manner that reinforced the international dimension of that right, including in relation to the external obstacles to development which limit States’ capacity to ensure the full implementation of all human rights for all. Accordingly, the Movement expected that the scope of the final version of the criteria would cover international cooperation, international trading and financial systems, including trade agreements, official assistance for development, debt relief, the elimination of poverty, technology transfer, capacity-building and other issues identified in Millennium Development Goal 8. 12. China noted that, without the development of developing countries, it was impossible to advance global economic development and difficult to address the current financial crisis. The Council should have a clear understanding of the importance of the right to development and the urgency for its implementation, instead of wasting time debating about whether the right to development entailed national or international obligations, individual or collective rights. China also welcomed the expansion of the thematic focus to debt relief and technology transfer and expressed the hope that the right to development criteria would be holistic and operational. 13. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung welcomed the report of the expert meeting on measurement issues relating to the right to development (A/HRC/12/WG.2/TF/CRP.7), and the endeavour of the task force to draw on the expertise of a broader group of academics in the implementation of its mandate. Attention was drawn to a publication issued by the Foundation in 2008 on the role of international law in implementing the right to development. 14. Nico Schrijver drew attention to the reference to an international legally-binding standard in General Assembly resolution 63/178 and referred to several legally binding instruments that incorporate important elements of the right to development. Given the Assembly’s interest in a new legal instrument, he listed four options that could be explored: a new declaration to be adopted in 2011 on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development; a set of guidelines that can sometimes be of a binding nature; an optional protocol to one or both of the existing human rights covenants; and a separate human rights