A/HRC/13/19 The Committee also provided views on the cooperation among States and cooperation in terms of international mechanisms. With regard to the former, it proposed excluding countries that pursue selective, subjective or non-neutral policies on human rights and economic cooperation, to support and develop partnership in international relations with States committed to dealing with human rights issues neutrally and objectively, to coordinate and cooperate among human rights authorities, and to support and secure capacities of the United Nations by providing the necessary financial capacity of its human rights programmes and activities. With regard to the latter, the Committee proposed to enhance the capacity of treaty and non-treaty mechanisms, and to support and activate the framework for effective cooperation and partnership with non-governmental organizations on all issues relating to human rights, in particular, through exchange of information. In that regard, it also proposed improving and developing effective cooperation among all human rights mechanisms of the United Nations system, to provide all necessary means to protect United Nations agencies and their staff, and to provide more guarantees for international investigators to ensure fair, impartial and objective investigations. Responses from non-governmental organizations Cercle de recherche sur les droits et les devoirs de la personne humaine (CRED) [Original: French] [20 November 2009] In its response, CRED and its representatives in 10 countries suggested that the General Assembly should create an ad hoc committee with the mandate to implement international human rights norms, in order to evaluate the implementation mechanisms of existing norms (from the time of signature of treaties to the harmonization of national legislation), and to propose means and ways to address shortcomings. This proposal was reiterated by CRED on 27 October 2009 at the second session of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards during the debate on agenda item 3. International Disability Alliance [Original: English] [20 November 2009] The International Disability Alliance provided a contribution in the name the International Disability Alliance Forum on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, whose mission is to promote the effective and full implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities worldwide, and ensure compliance. It commented that Convention, as the first United Nations human rights treaty that included a specific article on international cooperation (art. 32), which in its opinion established a good balance between the obligation of each State party towards its citizens and the recognition that international cooperation had a vital role to play in accelerating the effective implementation of the rights recognized in the Convention. It considered that the balance struck in article 32 of the Convention was applicable to the general issue of international cooperation in the field of human rights. The Forum considered that international cooperation could and should play a key role in the promotion of human rights, including the rights of persons with disabilities. It believed that more efforts need to be made to ensure that international cooperation was based on a human rights approach, involving persons with disabilities. By way of example, it made reference to international cooperation undertaken to promote the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which lacked any substantial focus on persons with 14 GE.10-10005