A/HRC/26/34 14. In follow-up to the conference, it was decided that recommendations from the three working groups would be pursued by participants in their respective fields to inspire further work undertaken in the framework of international organizations. Together with papers presented at the conference, the recommendations were to be subsequently published by the organizers as a conference outcome. C. Report to the General Assembly 15. The Independent Expert presented the first report under the mandate on human rights and international solidarity to the General Assembly in October 2013, during its sixty-eighth session. In her statement, she briefly introduced her mandate and outlined the salient milestones that had been reached since the establishment of the mandate in 2005, beginning with her predecessor’s activities and continuing with her own activities to date. 16. She described the three stages in her workplan and pointed out how international solidarity had already been sufficiently defined and redefined in the course of Stage One. Stage Two of the workplan had therefore shifted the focus to building up the momentum necessary to move beyond the issue of international cooperation and assistance, which for too long has constrained the elaboration of a right to international solidarity. She had recently embarked on Stage Three of her workplan, fast-tracking it in response to a resolution of the Human Rights Council at its twenty-first session, held in 2012, requesting her to prepare a preliminary text of the draft declaration on the right to international solidarity, to be shared with Member States and all other relevant stakeholders with a view to eliciting comments and inputs prior to finalizing the text of the draft declaration. 17. She pointed out that the preliminary text of the draft declaration had been circulated via a note verbale among Member States, the Geneva-based United Nations agencies and NGOs, experts, academics and other stakeholders, and that it was also at that time being circulated among States party delegations in New York, the New York-based United Nations agencies, NGOs and other actors. The aim was to disseminate the draft as widely as possible so as to achieve a broad consultation base. 18. The Independent Expert thanked the General Assembly for its support and its cooperation with the work of her mandate, and looked forward to a continuing and meaningful collaboration. D. Media releases1 1. Post-2015 development agenda 19. In the first week of November 2013, the Independent Expert released a statement to the media, calling on Member States to place international solidarity at the heart of the post-2015 development agenda. She said that, through international solidarity, peoples and individuals would have the freedom to enjoy the benefits of a harmonious international society in which all human rights and fundamental freedoms would be fully realized. She also announced the availability of the preliminary text of a draft declaration on the right of peoples and individuals to international solidarity, and that the draft declaration itself would be submitted to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-sixth session, to be held in June 2014. 1 The full texts of the statements are available from www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/NewsSearch.aspx?NTID=PRS&MID=IE_Solidarity. 5