A/HRC/26/34 Center has participated, created and led various activities for the promotion of human rights, including hosting its first international course on International Development and Human Rights. III. Overview of international solidarity among States in outcomes of selected global and regional summits 28. In this section of the report, the Independent Expert presents a summary of the outcomes of selected global and regional summits, in accordance with the request of the Council in its resolution 23/12. This section illustrates the activities undertaken by States to promote international solidarity. A. Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation: Uluwatu Declaration 29. Foreign ministers of the Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation (FEALAC) member countries met in Bali, Indonesia, on 13 and 14 June 2013 and adopted the Uluwatu Declaration. They recognized that addressing new and emerging challenges in today’s globalized and interdependent world requires efficient collaboration, cooperation and coordination among nations and other actors. They agreed to facilitate and strengthen interregional cooperation and collaboration between East Asia and Latin America, to work to reduce inequalities and gaps within and among member countries and to support the attainment of sustainable, inclusive and equitable economic growth and development, including the attainment of the MDGs in East Asian and Latin American countries. 30. The Uluwatu Declaration covers a broad range of issues, including the belief that micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises are the backbone of the FEALAC economies and the largest source of domestic employment, providing opportunities for women and youth to participate in economic development; the commitment to strengthen sociocultural cooperation and promote greater people-to-people interactions through increasing cultural education, sports and academic exchange, and interaction between parliamentarians and civil societies; the intention to achieve universal health coverage and to strengthen disaster risk reduction, preparedness and management; and the determination to continue engaging constructively in the negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol towards a post-2020 ambitious climate change regime. 31. The FEALAC countries reaffirmed their commitment to develop closer collaboration in preventing and combating transnational organized crime, including illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, corruption, smuggling of migrants, trafficking in persons, particularly women and children, which has grave impacts on human rights, the rule of law, security and social economic development. They further acknowledged the importance of creating a safe cyberspace, including by enhancing international cooperation to combat cybercrime. 32. The Declaration recognized the potential of South-South and triangular cooperation as mechanisms that allow the sharing and promotion of the strengths and institutional capabilities of the countries of both regions, based on solidarity and guided by the principles of respect for national sovereignty and free from any conditionalities, to contribute to their social and economic development. The FEALAC countries reaffirmed their commitment to fight against poverty, achieve all the MDGs and work towards an ambitious and implementable post-2015 development agenda that has at its centre poverty eradication, the promotion of sustainable development, and equitable and inclusive growth. 8

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