A/HRC/4/47 page 9 raised questions or made comments about the conclusions and recommendations of the task force report, which were addressed by the chairpersons of the Working Group and the task force. 30. It was pointed out that APRM is a South-South partnership and the Paris Declaration is a North-South partnership; some degree of skepticism was expressed as to the value of deeper analysis of these partnerships. The Chairperson of the task force explained that success of APRM should be seen by developed countries as being consistent with mutual responsibility of the developing countries, and deeper dialogue and analysis can contribute to ameliorating the functioning of these partnerships, including greater responsiveness of developed countries to the needs of developing countries. 31. Other comments highlighted the role of the task force and the Working Group in addressing the issue of policy space on the right to development and requested clarification of the reference to the “elaboration of a comprehensive and coherent set of standards to asses the implementation of the right to development” in the conclusions, and supported expansion of the role of the task force to elaborate on these standards as basis for a treaty rather than an assessment tool. Mr. Marks recalled that elaborating an international convention was not part of the mandate of task force; however, if it succeeded in creating a consensus around a set of standards on implementing the right to development with a wide enough range of partners, those standards might be widely accepted as a basis for consideration of a treaty at a later stage. 32. Mr. Salama pointed out that the conditions are ripe for elaborating standards for implementing the right to development and that five elements were needed for creation of normative standard: (a) a social demand; (b) precision of content (and not defining of redefining); (c) the political will to support the outcome; (d) the element of application or implementation; (e) a follow-up mechanism. He also highlighted that the key notion of this conclusion was “to facilitate” the creation of a conducive environment for elaborating on standards. 33. NAM declared for the record that a majority of States was in favour of an international legally binding instrument on the right to development, and that it should be reflected explicitly in the conclusions and recommendations of the Working Group. 34. Other delegates proposed that bilateral development partnerships be also considered by the task force. As an observer, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation proposed to conduct an evaluation of selected bilateral partnerships along the lines of the criteria and checklist of the task force. 35. A number of other comments focused on expanding the work of the task force to cover other areas in addition to aid effectiveness (e.g., trade, transfer of technology, migration, etc.) and other regions in addition to Africa (e.g., Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe). The Chairperson of the task force stated that it was conscious of the need to focus on other regions, including Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America and hoped that thematic expansion would be achieved by, inter alia, engaging WTO and UNCTAD more actively in the work of the task force. UNICEF presented some initiatives it had launched since the first session of the high level task force and which are directly relevant to the work of the task force, in particular analysis of debt assistance to Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative and a project on social budgeting. UNEP, for its part, stressed its interest in engaging with the task force in relation to