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Reaffirming the Declaration on the Right to Development, adopted by the General
Assembly in its resolution 41/128 of 4 December 1986,
Reaffirming also Human Rights Council resolutions 4/4 of 30 March 2007 and 9/3
of 17 September 2008, and recalling all Commission on Human Rights, Council and
General Assembly resolutions on the right to development,
Recognizing the renewed commitments to achieve the Millennium Development
Goals by their target date of 2015, as set out in the outcome document adopted at the Highlevel Plenary Meeting of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly on the Millennium
Development Goals,48
Emphasizing the urgent need to make the right to development a reality for
everyone,
Cognizant of the importance of engaging the United Nations system, including
United Nations funds and programmes and specialized agencies, within their respective
mandates, relevant international organizations, including financial and trade organizations,
and relevant stakeholders, including civil society organizations, in discussions on the right
to development,
Recognizing that achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including
the Millennium Development Goals, requires effective policy coherence and coordination
towards a global partnership for development that takes into consideration the right to
development,
Taking note of the commitment declared by a number of United Nations specialized
agencies, funds and programmes and other international organizations to make the right to
development a reality for all and, in this regard, encouraging all relevant bodies of the
United Nations system and other international organizations to mainstream the right to
development into their objectives, policies, programmes and operational activities, as well
as in development and development-related processes, including the follow-up to the
Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, the thirteenth session
of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations
Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio + 20), the quadrennial comprehensive policy
review, and the post 2015 development agenda,
Taking note also of the summary of the panel discussion of the Human Rights
Council on the theme, “The way forward in the realization of the right to development:
between policy and practice”49 and of the report of the 2011 Social Forum,50 which focused
on the right to development,
Stressing the primary responsibility of States for the creation of national and
international conditions favourable to the realization of the right to development,
Recalling that 2011 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the
Right to Development and, in this regard, expressing its appreciation of the efforts made by
the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in commemorating
the anniversary, including by holding and co-organizing side events and panel discussions
and launching outreach activities for the promotion of the realization of the right to
development,
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