A/HRC/26/34 to achieve equality and equity and to raise public awareness of the human rights, values and principles that guarantee women’s rights and their role in society. 46. The Declaration reiterated the commitment of the African and Arab countries to ensure that vulnerable groups have access to primary and essential medicines and therefore support initiatives to integrate policies on combating epidemic diseases (malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS) and non-communicable diseases in education, information and public awareness programmes; to strengthen cooperation in the field of education and scientific research programmes and share best practices in those two fields; to facilitate investment in the field of energy aimed at jointly developing new and renewable energy sources and expanding access to reliable and affordable modern energy services; to encourage governments, the private sector and civil society to strengthen cooperation on issues concerning rural development, agricultural development and food security; to promote interaction between African and Arab civil society organizations to enhance people-to-people relationships; and to develop policies to support economic growth and adopt financial policies that guarantee sustainability in order to enhance poverty eradication policies, including the MDGs and the post-2015 development agenda. 47. The Declaration also reaffirmed the strong commitment of the countries of the two regions to comprehensive reform of the United Nations system, including the Security Council, to reflect current global realities and make it more regionally representative, balanced, democratic, effective and fair. It welcomed the decision of the League of Arab States (LAS) Council at the level of the Summit to establish an Arab Court of Human Rights with headquarters in Bahrain, which is regarded as a support to the common Arab system in the field of human rights in a legislative framework based on international agreement, the principles of international law and the International Bill of Human Rights. E. Second summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States: Havana Declaration 48. The Second summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) convened in Havana from 28 to 29 January 2014 and brought together the Heads of State and Government of the Latin American and the Caribbean States. The Havana Declaration, the outcome document, declared the CELAC region a nuclear-free zone of peace, based on respect for the principles and rules of international law, including the international instruments to which member States are a party, and the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. 49. The Havana Declaration contains specific commitments on the part of the CELAC countries to resolve disputes through peaceful means with the aim of definitively eliminating the threat or actual use of force in the region; to abide by their obligation not to intervene, directly or indirectly, in the internal affairs of any other State; to uphold the commitment of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean to foster cooperation and friendly relations with each other and with other nations; to practise tolerance and live together in peace with each other as good neighbours; to fully respect the inalienable right of every State to choose its political, economic, social, and cultural system; to promote a culture of peace in the region, based, inter alia, on the principles of the Declaration on a Culture of Peace; to be guided by the Declaration in their international relations; and to continue promoting nuclear disarmament as a priority. 50. The CELAC countries accorded the highest priority to strengthening food and nutritional security, literacy and post-literacy, free universal public general education, quality technical, vocational and higher education with a social purpose, fostering land tenure, agricultural development, including peasant and family farming, decent and 11