A/HRC/15/WG.2/TF/2 Action process was not subject to change, but its implementation and interpretation provided opportunities to introduce human rights and right to development priorities. He also requested the Global Fund to update the task force on new developments in the promotion of innovation. The representative of the Global Fund referred in his response to patent pools that had been created, and also stated that the organization is committed to working with partners to improve access to essential medicines, and would make efforts to create incentives for manufacturers to collaborate to improve access to intellectual property and medicines. 33. In the interactive session with observers, Spain, on behalf of the European Union, commented that the dialogue initiated by the task force with global partnerships was beneficial to the implementation of the right to development, and emphasized that partnerships may also incorporate a human rights approach. 34. Egypt, speaking on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, referred to Council resolution 12/24, in which the Council requested OHCHR to organize an expert consultation on access to essential medicines, and stated that the outcome of the consultations should be linked to the right to development criteria. The United States of America, commenting on the mission report on access to essential medicines, expressed appreciation for the efforts made in information gathering. The United States took exception to the reference in the report to the right to development as “universally accepted”, since, in its view, this is not the case. In a clarification, the ChairpersonRapporteur explained that the reference in the report alluded to the repetition of commitment to this right in such consensus documents as the Vienna Declaration of 1993, the Millennium Declaration of 2000, the Monterrey Consensus of 2002, the World Summit Outcome of 2005 and various other world summits and conferences where the United States had joined consensus. He also respected the reservations and negative votes expressed by the United States in the past, and agreed that the political significance of agreeing to a long consensus text with a brief reference to the right to development should not be exaggerated. Nevertheless, universal acceptance (which does not imply any legal obligations) could be concluded from those consensus documents at the highest level. Egypt and Mauritius supported this viewpoint, adding that, in all human rights documents and resolutions, the right to development was always mentioned together with other human rights. B. Millennium Development Goal 8, target F, on technology transfer 35. The Chairperson-Rapporteur recalled that the task force had proposed, and the Working Group had accepted, that the former would address target F of Goal 8 from the perspective of the potential contribution to the right to development of the WIPO Development Agenda and the Clean Development Mechanism of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, rather than information and communication technology. 36. Ms. Fukuda-Parr presented the report of the technical mission to WIPO undertaken to initiate a dialogue on the WIPO Development Agenda from a right to development perspective. The importance of the agenda for development results from technology being a crucial element in creating an enabling environment for development, as technological innovation is an essential input to almost every area of human progress. The uneven global distribution of access and innovation is a defining challenge of the twenty-first century. The agenda is a major breakthrough in ensuring that the framework of intellectual property protection is managed to serve the public interest. 37. Ms. Fukuda-Parr recalled the key tensions between intellectual property systems and the right to development. While intellectual property encourages innovation that produces 8 GE.10-11443